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Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands
wiredmikey writes A Dutch entrepreneur has had two microchips containing Bitcoin injected into his hands to help him make contactless payments. The chips, enclosed in a 2mm by 12mm capsule of "biocompatible" glass, were injected using a special syringe and can communicate with devices such as Android smartphones or tablets via NFC. "What's stored on the microchips should be seen as a savings account rather than a current account," Martijn Wismeijer, co-founder of MrBitcoin said. "The payment device remains the smartphone, but you transfer funds from the chips." The chips are available on the Internet, sold with a syringe for $99, but Wismeijer suggested individuals should find a specialist to handle the injection to avoid infections.
Entrepreneur's Private Key Stolen
Why?
Why was my first thought, of a psychologist...
Here is how I would want this to work if I was using this system (I bet it's not implemented this way): I'd put the bitcoins in a address that requires 3 keys to spend it. One would be owned by my phone, so I could use its nice display to view and check the transaction value before approving (Key would be stored encrypted and I'd have to provide a password to decrypt it). The silly injected device would sign any request from my phone (with would authenticate with it) to prevent theft of my phone from accomplishing very much (seems redundant really), and the third party would by my home server (likely as a Tor hidden service since that gets you a free publicly routable address). The server would sanity check things, watch for block chain forks, and simply delay or deny any suspect large transactions. Spare keys can be stored offline.
"Thank you. With this handshake you handed over all your bitcoins to me."
I love bitcoin. I've mined them, bought them, sold them, bought real tangible (completely legal) things with them, donated to worthwhile causes with them, and have read enough to understand how the whole system works...and even I think this is a downright retarded idea.
Now you not only have to concern yourself with the personal sanitary habits of those with whom you shake hands, but whether they've "cleaned you out", as well.
The phrase "hacking hands" suddenly acquires a lot more meaning...
Paai
So much for being anonymous. That's even better for tracking than a bar code tattoo.
That's... not small considering your hands are pretty tightly packed full of muscles, ligaments, and bone with very little free space that doesn't need to flex. twist, or shift during use, and they're always knocking into things. Even if this is a good idea technologically, it sure sounds like its a bad idea for practical reasons, at least until the capsule can be made smaller.
Way too fragile to have at hand in my line of factory work... I'm worried about impact effects of that capsule when i hit my hand somewhere while fixing an machine. And i am talking about actual machine where you need wrench, screwdriver, etc... to fix it..
Your in world of trouble and pain if that capsule brakes.
Now with 666 different buying-and-selling features.
I had the same option but went with the two foot bitcoin enabled dildo option instead. It less permanent (in that it can come out at anytime), but in practical daily use I retain it for weeks and just let it emerge enough for me to tap the touch pay systems at enabled vendors,.
"The chips are available on the Internet, sold with a syringe for $99"
I'm going to inject something I bought over the internet into my hand.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
After all the years of paying these dicks in the capitol city.
I prefer the old fashioned method of shoving dollar bills up my ass
Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands
You know, you could've squeezed "his" into the title. It's not like you have to pay per character.
I thought he was either selling this as a service or going around at night injecting unsuspecting passers-by.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name
Surely, the backside will become the natural place to inject this horse's ass of an idea. Maybe payment will is made by twerking? That would explain a few things.
Is this sig nificant?
A. Something you know
B. Something you have
C. Something your are
And
D. Something you injected into your hands like a fucking retard
Hey kid, this is a stickup. Put your hands in the air. Later that day a kid was admitted to the emergency room, the police report noted he was missing those very same hands.
A bitcoin private key is only 64 characters long. Memorize it and recite it every morning.
Enjoy the cancer, fools. There is plenty of evidence that these chips will cause it, particularly if you plan on living more than ten years. Google it for yourself, but here is just one link: http://www.dogsnaturallymagazi... Bob Barker also recommends getting your balls cut off at the same time.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
... when he launders his hand after taking a wee wee.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Seriously, what's wrong with cash?
... it won't keep him safe from ebola virus.