The downside of up, a miner problem, and robot overlords - ahoy!
Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 25th October 2013 - a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host ... John Law. The price of fame. There are many possible reasons why bitcoin's value has surged over the past week - China taking it seriously, the robust way it shrugged off the Silk Road shut-down, ever more bullish talking from venture capitalists and fund owners. (John Law covered most of those last week, so the real reason is probably investors hanging on his every....
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In an effort to uncover the hidden darker parts of the internet, Swiss group Mediengruppe Bitnik created a bitcoin robot as an art installation. The robot is given $100 every week to purchase random items from Agora, an online marketplace where one can buy drugs and other illegal items. The bitcoin robot managed to use its $100 to buy Ecstasy, a Hungarian passport, and a baseball cap before getting arrested. Other purchases included fake Diesel jeans, a Sprite can with a hole cut out in order to stash cash, Nike trainers, a baseball cap with a hidden camera, cigarettes and the "Lord of the....
Meeting the company for the first time. I met Oleg at the North American Bitcoin Conference (in Miami), who was representing BTC Robot. They were one of the many exhibitors. I was already in search of a legit BTC Robot, so I was happy to see that this company was there and I could actually talk to someone. We agreed that Bitcoinist.net would try out their software and write a review. It is not a scam. Let me confirm one really important fact. BTC Robot (www.btcrobot.com) is NOT a scam. There is a real software behind it. BTC Robot Setup / Customer Service Experience. Shortly after the....
Robots are becoming omnipresent and progressively smarter. Furthermore, advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the expanding Internet of Things (IoT) are helping robots become increasingly independent. Leading thinkers are worrying about ethical challenges of machines that can make their own decisions. Artificial Intelligence and Ethics.....
Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 24th January 2014 - a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host ... John Law. Brand-new brand news. How many currencies are there? That's an unanswerable question. If you define currency as nation-state backed traditional notes-and-coins currency, then there are around 170, lightly fewer than the 190-odd countries in the world. If you mean tokens of value, then who knows - you can count anything from Costa Coffee loyalty card stamps....
There’s a new avenue darknet market (DNM) customers have found that allows them to purchase illegal wares 24 hours a day via a robot drug dealer hosted on Telegram. The platform dubbed ‘Televend,’ is an automated software program that peddles illicit narcotics for people paying with bitcoin and during the last few months, the complex system has grown massively. While many darknet markets have fallen to the wayside, a slew of new types of methods when it comes to selling illegal drugs online has risen. For instance, the world’s largest DNM in Russia, Hydra,....