Bitcoin Now Buys ... Cryonic Suspension?
It's no Expedia or Overstock.com, but apparently bitcoin can now buy you cryonic suspension, in an interesting turn of events when it comes to merchants accepting bitcoin. The Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona is accepting the digital currency for this interesting yet controversial procedure that hopes to keep today's terminally ill alive 100 years down the line. That's according to this tweet from Bitcoin Hey-Soos Roger Ver this morning. You're probably asking: what the heck is cryonics? From the Alcor website: Cryonics is an effort to save lives by using temperatures....
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Major Chinese exchange BTCChina has announced the suspension of bitcoin and litecoin withdrawals. In effect, all of China’s ‘big 3’ bitcoin exchanges have now enforced a month-long suspension of cryptocurrency withdrawals. The suspension will last until March 15th as the exchange underlines the move as a compliance measure after the central bank’s crackdown against bitcoin exchanges in the country continues. In an announcement on its homepage, the bitcoin exchange underlines the same reasons offered by the two other major exchanges in OkCoin and Huobi, both of whom suspended withdrawals a....
Toward the end of our hour-long interview, Bitcoin.com founder Roger Ver drops a bombshell: He had considered killing himself to escape a jail sentence at the age of 23. Even for the most freedom-loving libertarian, this seems extreme. But Ver had worked out a way to escape his own death by having himself cryonically preserved, to be revived at a later date. At 20 years old, Ver had already signed up with Arizona life extension company Alcor to be frozen after death, long before he was handed a 10-month prison stretch in 2002 for selling firecrackers on eBay.Itll freeze your body in a big....