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I'm a person!

My name is Ajit Dalit, I live in Raurkela in India. I leave here, in this block, a message of hope. I have been working in a Captcha Farm for a year, the working conditions are extreme, for most of the day we live like chickens: locked up in one of the hundreds of bunks that fill a shed that I have never seen the end of. The only moments in which we go down, forming long queues on the ladders, or we go to the bathroom or recover some supplements; I haven't eaten food for 65 days when good Devendra left me a bite of chapati.

While we work we cannot lose even a second because we have to certify at least 5400 blocks a day, one every 10 seconds for 15 hours. At the end of working hours and during breaks, the device turns off so we have no free time on the internet. I've been writing this message for two weeks in the few moments I save when I can certify two transactions in 10 seconds. You may wonder why I am staying here ... There is no other job in India that allows me to earn a salary that offers my family the opportunity to study: to one day escape to Europe.

The explosion of cryptocurrencies in the 1930s caused the already irreversible situation of climate change to degenerate, the countries that suffered the most from pollution were India and Africa. Most of the third countries had been deprived of all local energy, destined for the massive mining farms, the heavy industries of the new currency era. All this lasted very little, until the global revolution of '41 when the Mining Farms were destroyed by the local populations and intellectuals from all over the world supported the cause. It therefore became necessary to find a new type of certification to support the new decentralized currency.

The most obvious choice at the beginning was the Proof of Stake, but it was soon attacked by populist parties because it gave monetary power to the rich, in fact, to become certifiers you had to have at least the equivalent of € 100,000 in your wallet. Eventually governments around the world decided to use the Proof of Captcha, everyone would have a chance to certify, so the power would be divided equally among the entire population. The concept is simple every time a new block arrives to be certified, a text must be transcribed from a dirty image, the first one who manages to do so certifies the block. Only a human is capable of doing this.

At first I did not understand how they could not have foreseen the creation of Captcha Farm: the exploitation of millions of individuals for certification, brains instead of GPUs: more powerful and consuming less. Then I understood: the powerful had foreseen it, and they know that in one way or another a master is needed and a slave is needed in this world, there are not enough resources for everyone. And it is the powerful who have the propaganda tools in their hands, hiding the problem is simple, the masses are happier when they do not see the evil they are causing.

Please help us, you can only live as kings because we are your slaves, and the system prevents us from rebelling. I want to have the chance to live with my family, eat solid food and have normal working hours, I ask for nothing more, I don't want to be a king, but I am a person!

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