Crypto user who lost $163M in Bitcoin wants to deploy robot search party: Report
Bitcoiner James Howells planned to speak with the Newport City Council in the coming weeks on a proposal to find his hard drive discarded in a landfill nine years ago. James Howells, a British man who mistakenly discarded a hard drive containing roughly 7,500 Bitcoin in 2013 has reportedly started looking at having robots and humans work together to retrieve his crypto from a local landfill.According to a Sunday report from Business Insider, Howells has pitched an $11-million idea to locate and recover the lost hard drive, which may be surrounded by up to roughly 110,000 tons of garbage.....
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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....
Founded by Vishal Gupta and Rashmit Gupta, SearchTrade, a startup with its registered office in Singapore, has created a flutter in the Bitcoin industry with its unique business model. The Company is planning to incentivize online search in two unique ways: The time a user spends on the internet will enable him to earn a few satoshis easily, provided the search engines used are integrated with the Company's platform. Another way by which SearchTrade plans to reward the user is by selling keywords. Users who wish to earn more can buy keywords and receive remuneration when someone else makes....
Estimates suggest 20% of Bitcoin’s supply has been lost. Are these funds a donation to everyone else, or a challenge to further adoption? Cryptocurrency custody solutions have become a big business over the last few years. Independent storage and security systems meant to hold large quantities of crypto on behalf of clients can bring in institutional capital and retail investors waiting on the sidelines simply because they remove a major fear: losing access to funds that become unrecoverable.Because of the decentralized nature of major blockchains like that of Bitcoin or Ethereum, whenever....
Internet search engine DuckDuckGo is joining the bitcoin club. Well, sort of. The engine, which prides itself on protecting user privacy, is now displaying bitcoin price quotes on relevant search queries. Queries the likes of "bitcoin price" will display quotes for easy reference. The quote box supplies the user to the Markets page at Blockchain.info, which serves as an additional resource. The world's largest search engine, Google, has yet to implement such a feature. Though competitor Bing has added a feature allowing for the rate conversion of bitcoin to fiat. Information engine....