Bitpost posted an article about NFC implants inside the human body. Bitcoin NFC implants became a bit of a media buzz late 2014 / early 2015 when Martijn Wismeijer, one of the founding members of the Bitcoin Embassy Amsterdam experimented with biohacking a contactless bitcoin payment solution together using implanted NFC technology. The article on Bitpost shows…
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During a short break in Malta our co-founder Mr. Arthur Rommes of the Bitcoin Embassy Amsterdam spoke at the Start Up Malta Community. ( http://www.meetup.com/Malta-Startup-Community – 292 members ) on April 23rd 2015 for about 50 attendants, including various government officials, professionals, Bitcoin and blockchain enthusiasts on the subjects of Bitcoin, the Bitcoin Embassy Amsterdam…
SendChat has been created with the aim of becoming the main communication tool devised using the blockchain technology. The SendChat platform will infuse existing instant messaging technologies like Telegram to not only deliver a platform which has been extensively developed with privacy and security in mind but also integrate other digital currency platforms such as…
KPMG has announced the speaker lineup for the fifth in its series of Gibraltar eGaming summits, due to take place at the Sunborn Hotel, Gibraltar on 23rd and 24th April, 2015. Now established as one of the industry’s key thought leadership events, the 2015 summit features an evolution of the traditional programme to this year…
This is the story behind the two little Bitcoin miners on display at the Bitcoin Embassy in Amsterdam. Jannes and Hillbrand, two long time members of the Amsterdam Bitcoin community purchased these Bitcoin miners somewhere in 2013 in the hopes they would be able to start mining Bitcoin soon. Both Jannes and Hill had experience…
On a recent event Jacob and Yoshi from Bitmain dropped by to say hello, introduce us to the S2 upgrade boards (to get more life out of your old Antminer S2) and show us the current Bitmain Antminer S5 unit. This week we connect it to some power and a mining pool. I complain a…