CryptoCurrency : AMA: We’re an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute & two blockchain teams using cryptocurrency to help categorize millions of deep space photos from the Hubble Space Telescope – Ask Us Anything!
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Hey everyone — if you saw the news [on Coindesk](https://www.coindesk.com/hubble-researcher-focuses-on-blockchain-for-space-data-processing/) and elsewhere, that’s us! We’re using CPU Tokens and blockchain to help categorize millions of Hubble space photos through an image recognition AI — think SETI@HOME meets cryptocurrency. [More info on this blog post](https://medium.com/aikon/cpu-tokens-our-new-cryptocurrency-will-help-us-explore-the-universe-3be89f368f03)
AMA team:
Josh Peek (/u/carbon_is_metal) associate astronomer, Data Science Mission Office Project Scientist at[ STScI](http://www.stsci.edu/), and[ MAST](http://archive.stsci.edu/) Principle Investigator. Homepage: [http://www.stsci.edu/~jegpeek/](http://www.stsci.edu/~jegpeek/)
Cliff Szu (u/hadroncloud), CEO of Hadron, which pays cryptocurrency miners to help complete huge projects by “renting out” the processing power from their phones and computers. Homepage: [https://hadron.cloud/](https://hadron.cloud/)
Marc Blinder (/u/MarcAikon), co-founder/CPO of AIKON, which provides a platform to allow blockchain companies to work with the rest of the Internet : Homepage: [https://aikon.com/](https://aikon.com/)
Speaking of APIs, the one we’re using for the Hubble project is now available for developers to play with, test out, and earn crypto by helping us test the platform with some cool challenges, like today’s: Quest for Astrocat!– check it out here: [https://api.market](https://api.market/)
So… AMA!
UPDATE: Thanks for all the great questions everyone! We need to wrap up but we’ll check back from time to time for new questions if you have any. Or feel free to tweet them at us here: [https://twitter.com/TeamAIKON/status/1024692519840489472](https://twitter.com/TeamAIKON/status/1024692519840489472)
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