{"id":219526,"date":"2025-08-06T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/cryonics-cryptography-ralph-merkle-at-vitalist-bay"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:03:16","slug":"cryonics-cryptography-ralph-merkle-at-vitalist-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/cryonics-cryptography-ralph-merkle-at-vitalist-bay","title":{"rendered":"Cryonics &amp; Cryptography | Ralph Merkle at Vitalist Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XnZj-HkCLb8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Veteran cryonicist and inventor of cryptographic hashing, Ralph Merkle, tells us how he came to decide that cryonics was a good idea. In his talk, Ralph discusses Information Theoretic Death, why information is so hard to destroy, and how advances in nano-tech might make cryonics revival possible.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<br \/> \u2022 Cryosphere Discord server: <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/ndshSfQwqz\">https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/ndshSfQwqz<\/a>.<br \/> \u2022 Cryonics subreddit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/cryonics\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/cryonics\/<\/a><br \/> #cryosphere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran cryonicist and inventor of cryptographic hashing, Ralph Merkle, tells us how he came to decide that cryonics was a good idea. In his talk, Ralph discusses Information Theoretic Death, why information is so hard to destroy, and how advances in nano-tech might make cryonics revival possible. Links: \u2022 Cryosphere Discord server: https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/ndshSfQwqz. \u2022 Cryonics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2017,1625,269,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryonics","category-encryption","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}