Smart contracts and way cooler community and ideology. Everything starts with an eth. Google Defi, in case you hadnt heard about its recent explosion. The peoples financial system is emerging quickly. BTC looks old in comparison and should play a role as the vaults of crypto, but nothing at all exciting going on. Eth on the other hand...

The ethernet blockchain is "Turing Complete" you can program anything on it. Get a metamask extension for your browser and you can cruise a "decentralized web" that runs on top of the ethernet blockchain. These sites are more resilient than the tor hidden service they really can't be taken down since there is no server.

Bitcoin is a platform for money - like an open network for accounting software vaguely.

Ethereum is a platform for more complex contracts between computers - like an open network for business law. The ETH coin is a subset of all this.

The motivation behind them is hugely different. bitcoins were created by libertarian types, looking to create a free world on the internet.

Ethereum was more about technical perfection for such an effort. It's not only a coin but a language for commerce between machines.

Make sure she is properly cured and then put in air tight jar.

Does she want to be preserved? This can be a really big deal for her legacy and may freak out her family, it takes some fortitude to get past that.

this. I have a very hard time even talking with people about this basically they think it's a conceit to even consider it.

My gran died a couple of years ago and one of the biggest regrets I have is that I didn't talk with her about her life. My advice is spend as much time with her as possible, talk to her, learn about her (write things down if you need to) - and then keep her in your memories. Pass on your knowledge of her to the next generation. That is basically as close to immortality most of us get.

Exactly this! My gran died in 2014, one year shy of 100. She had seen a lot in her life, being born during World War One. I cherish the chats that we had. As I get older, I realise how privileged I was to have known her. Not only because of who she was but because she was born in another era and her stories and memories were real life history from a very different world to our own.

I might be too old fashioned, but since you're talking about your grandma, that might not be a bad thing. Have you asked her how she feels about death? She might not want to be frozen, or otherwise kept from death. I've had to deal with death way too much recently. It's horrible, and my heart goes out to you. But sometimes dying people see loved ones who are already dead. Real, or imagined, I won't know for sure until I take that last trip. I've started to feel very selfish for keeping my sister on life support as long as I did. Personally, I really believe that death is just a transition. Regardless, I think spending as much time with her as you can, and even recording conversations with her would be a good thing. Whatever you choose, I wish you both well.

Record her talking about her life and memories, oral history vcan be an amazing gateway into the past.

ice, ice baby

One grandma on the rocks, extra sweet.

It seems like a perfect idea, instead of fighting the long life of plastics we use this to preserve.

I imagine an undertaker could inject some plastics, use a plastic coffin and we could have masses of people preserved inexpensively.

Hard to find much on this though, Gwern's piece is pretty old

Wait you're gonna go with "plastication" because you think it has less embarrassing analogies than freezing?

What if each brain uploaded - or rather the owner of such brain gets a royalty?

Depends whose brain gets uploaded, what if a slacker replicates?