{"id":90280,"date":"2019-05-05T02:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T09:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-bitcoiners-who-want-to-defeat-death"},"modified":"2019-05-05T02:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T09:22:26","slug":"the-bitcoiners-who-want-to-defeat-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-bitcoiners-who-want-to-defeat-death","title":{"rendered":"The Bitcoiners Who Want to Defeat Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-bitcoiners-who-want-to-defeat-death.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As he sits stroking his Rip Van Winkle-worthy beard, it\u2019s easy to see how de Grey\u2019s achieved this \u201ckind of a spiritual leader-status,\u201d as he calls it. He dives easily into intricate explanations of two research projects unfolding in the lab down the hall, eagerly describing how one studies mitochondrial mutations, which are thought to cause an increase in oxidative stress. The other looks at atherosclerosis, the narrowing and hardening of artery walls. If we understood more about this buildup, the logic goes, we could better clean it up before too much damage is done.<\/p>\n<p>Though he attends lab meetings and oversees the SENS\u2019s research, his primary task is convincing the general public that death <i>is, in fact, bad<\/i> and that we should be doing everything we can to stop it. This focus on messaging suits him just fine. \u201cI\u2019m not in this to do science for the sake of doing science,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m in it for the ultimate goal.\u201d He does a \u201cridiculous\u201d amount of media, he says, and gives around 50 talks a year, from Vietnam to the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, at a San Francisco blockchain conference called Block 2 the Future, de Grey began his talk with a disclaimer: \u201cI probably ought to start by emphasizing that I don\u2019t know fuck-all about cryptocurrencies. I am really only here because I have apparently quite a significant fan base in this community, and I am delighted that I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/breakermag.com\/the-bitcoiners-who-want-to-defeat-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As he sits stroking his Rip Van Winkle-worthy beard, it\u2019s easy to see how de Grey\u2019s achieved this \u201ckind of a spiritual leader-status,\u201d as he calls it. He dives easily into intricate explanations of two research projects unfolding in the lab down the hall, eagerly describing how one studies mitochondrial mutations, which are thought to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1318,1761,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90280","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}