Rage Against the Machine: Bitcoin ‘A Great Hedge Against the System’
Bitcoin has now become a “great hedge” against the centrally-controlled banking system according to BTCC CEO Bobby Lee. Bitcoin: Designed to Protect Your Wealth. The current debt-based, centrally-controlled banking and monetary system have created a monster, not much unlike “Frankenstein’s Monster.” Bitcoin has now become a monster the centralized power structure is trying to control. As Satoshi Nakamoto has stated before, Bitcoin was created in response to “The Great Recession” of 2007-2009 that many countries still haven’t completely recovered from. These action of these cyclical....
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When it comes to bitcoin and AI, it is impossible to tell what the future will hold. A new breed of hedge funds is coming to Wall Street and other financial areas all over the world. Two new technologies are becoming the next area of focus: artificial intelligence and bitcoin. One interesting example is called Numerai, a hedge fund trading through machine learning models built by scientists paid in bitcoin. It is evident there is a growing demand to access the bitcoin ecosystem without having to buy cryptocurrency directly. On paper, it is not easy to grasp the concept of a bitcoin or AI....
We've been calling the Lamassu bitcoin machine an ATM for some time, but we should properly correct ourselves and call it a bitcoin 'vending machine', because it does not exchange bitcoin-to-cash. Rather, you insert cash, and you get bitcoin sent to an address of your choosing. That said, The Verge has uploaded a great video from CES 2014 demonstrating the machine, along with a question-and-answer session with Lamassu CEO Zach Harvey. It's pretty interesting, so if you find yourself with a spare few minutes, check it out.
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A two-way Robocoin bitcoin ATM has just landed on the shores of England, thanks to the efforts of Global Bitcoin ATM, a UK-based company. Located at Worldwide Connection, an Internet cafe in Holborn, central London, it is the first Robocoin machine in Europe and the first two-way ATM in the UK capital. Getting it here wasn't the easiest process, though, says Global Bitcoin ATM's co-founder Jean Paul. It took the company over four months to order, receive and ship the machine across the pond. Said Paul: "We thought it was a great business idea. We wondered, 'Is anyone is doing that? No....
Numerai, a hedge fund based in San Francisco, has gained a following since launching this month as the first hedge fund that gives stock market data to machine learning scientists using structure-preserving encryption. The fund allows open participation by data scientists around the world. Founder Richard Craib and his company recently completed their first round of venture funding, led by the New York venture capital firm Union Square Ventures, according to Wired. Union Square has invested $3 million in the round, with an additional $3 million coming from others. Numerai has built a....