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This candy dispenser lets you pay in bitcoin

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by on May 29, 2018 at 7:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Finance, Hard Fork, Insider, Insights


A cryptocurrency enthusiast has created a candy dispenser that accepts payments in bitcoin. The device, christened “sweetbit,” works by listening for incoming bitcoin transactions through blockchain.info and dispenses equivalent amount of candies. The dispenser is supported by Arduino Micro, a micro-controller which allows the device to be controlled through USB. You can watch it at work here: Just finished my Bitcoin-enabled candy dispenser 🍬 pic.twitter.com/pU2xJdBIyx — David Knezić (@davidknezic) May 27, 2018 Its creator, David Knezić, says that he created the device to demonstrate how easy it is to integrate bitcoin payments. He has made the code public on Github. While…

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This candy dispenser lets you pay in bitcoin

May29
by on May 29, 2018 at 7:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Finance, Hard Fork, Insider, Insights


A cryptocurrency enthusiast has created a candy dispenser that accepts payments in bitcoin. The device, christened “sweetbit,” works by listening for incoming bitcoin transactions through blockchain.info and dispenses equivalent amount of candies. The dispenser is supported by Arduino Micro, a micro-controller which allows the device to be controlled through USB. You can watch it at work here: Just finished my Bitcoin-enabled candy dispenser 🍬 pic.twitter.com/pU2xJdBIyx — David Knezić (@davidknezic) May 27, 2018 Its creator, David Knezić, says that he created the device to demonstrate how easy it is to integrate bitcoin payments. He has made the code public on Github. While…

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TNW Conference attendees share the buzzwords they hate to use

May29
by on May 29, 2018 at 7:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Working in any aspect of the tech  means you probably come across a buzzwords all the time. ‘Crypto,’ ‘millenials,’ ‘unicorn,’ and other such words are part of regular industry lingo – words we sometime grow to embrace, but often just make us cringe. It’s no surprise that buzzwords get thrown around at TNW’s annual conference in Amsterdam as well, so we set out to ask a few attendees from varying parts of the tech world two questions: What buzzword(s) are you most guilty of using? Which one(s) do you hate the most? Here are a few snippets of the responses:…

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TNW Conference attendees share the buzzwords they hate to use

May29
by on May 29, 2018 at 7:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Working in any aspect of the tech  means you probably come across a buzzwords all the time. ‘Crypto,’ ‘millenials,’ ‘unicorn,’ and other such words are part of regular industry lingo – words we sometime grow to embrace, but often just make us cringe. It’s no surprise that buzzwords get thrown around at TNW’s annual conference in Amsterdam as well, so we set out to ask a few attendees from varying parts of the tech world two questions: What buzzword(s) are you most guilty of using? Which one(s) do you hate the most? Here are a few snippets of the responses:…

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TNW Conference attendees share the buzzwords they hate to use

May29
by on May 29, 2018 at 7:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Working in any aspect of the tech  means you probably come across a buzzwords all the time. ‘Crypto,’ ‘millenials,’ ‘unicorn,’ and other such words are part of regular industry lingo – words we sometime grow to embrace, but often just make us cringe. It’s no surprise that buzzwords get thrown around at TNW’s annual conference in Amsterdam as well, so we set out to ask a few attendees from varying parts of the tech world two questions: What buzzword(s) are you most guilty of using? Which one(s) do you hate the most? Here are a few snippets of the responses:…

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