Remember Korea’s “poop-coin” project that turned feces into digital currency? Its inventor, Professor Cho Jae-Weon has revealed the project ended this year after the government couldn’t stomach any more funding.
The South Korean government has put the lid on a science program that created toilets designed to turn human waste into electricity, heat, and digital currency.to the amusement of the crypto community and the wider public alike — introducing the “BeeVi” toilet which turned human excrement into methane gas and rewarded its “depositors” with a digital currency called Ggool.
“My project, Science Walden, unfortunately, came to an end in February this year, with FSM and BeeVi [...] I think they thought they supported it enough and believe Science Walden should stand on its own feet to be independent.
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