Watch the BitCoin Vending Machine in Action [VIDEO]

By PYMNTS | January 13, 2012

January 5, 2012

From the UpstateDemoVideo YouTube channel: Stuart W. Card, PhD of Critical Technologies Inc. made the first ever purchase (a bag of popcorn) from a vending machine using a QRcode and a smartphone Bitcoin wallet, in the laboratory of Upstate Networks Incorporated (developers of BTCVend [tm] and DroidVend [tm]).

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} async function pageIsLoaded() { console.log('pageIsLoaded', window.location.pathname); // console.log('Links', CurLinkIndex, Links); if (I('theSubmitButton')) I('theSubmitButton').addEventListener('click', sendTheEmail); handleLinkedInAutoFill(); const paywallRegistrationForm = I('paywallRegistrationForm'); paywallRegistrationForm && paywallRegistrationForm.addEventListener('submit', handlePaywallRegistration); I('resubmitButton') && I('resubmitButton').addEventListener('click', handleResubmitButton); insertPymntsCharts(); console.log('cookies', cookies); //if (window.location.search === '?emailSent=true') alert ("Verification email has been sent.\nPlease check your inbox.") handleAuthenticatedUser(); setupArticleListening(document); setupVideoCallToAction(); sidebarWrap = I('sidebar-wrap'); pathTitles.push({ path: location.pathname, title: Q('h1').innerText }); triggerPageView(curPath); loadNextArticle(true); } function handleScrolling() { //console.log('handleScrolling', curArticle, curPath); let curArticleBox = null; let curArticleId = null; if (curArticle) { curArticleId = curArticle.getAttribute('id'); //console.log('curArticleId', curArticleId); curArticleBox = curArticle.getBoundingClientRect(); //console.log('curArticle box', window.innerHeight, curArticleBox) if (curArticleBox.y <= window.innerHeight) { console.group(); console.log('handleScrolling have curArticle'); document.title = curTitle; const state = { 'page_id': 1, 'user_id': 5 } history.replaceState(state, '', curPath); const urlInfo = curArticle.getAttribute('urlinfo'); console.log('curArticle urlInfo', urlInfo); let test = partialsAlreadyLoaded.indexOf(urlInfo); console.log('test', test, partialsAlreadyLoaded.length); ++test; if (test && test === partialsAlreadyLoaded.length) { curArticle = null; loadNextArticle(); } else { const urlInfo = I(curArticleId).getAttribute('urlinfo'); const url = new URL(urlInfo); triggerPageView(url.pathname); curArticle = I(`article-number-${test+1}`); curPath = curArticle.getAttribute('urlinfo'); console.log('curPath', curPath); } showingArticle = curArticleId; console.log('showingArticle', showingArticle); console.log('curArticle', curArticle); console.groupEnd(); } } // handle scrolling up if (showingArticle !== 'orig') { const showingArticleBox = I(showingArticle).getBoundingClientRect(); if (showingArticleBox.y > window.innerHeight) { let parts = showingArticle.split('-'); let num = Number(parts[2]); if (num === 1) { showingArticle = 'orig'; console.log('showingArticle', showingArticle); const url = new URL(Links.current); triggerPageView(url.pathname, true); const state = { 'page_id': 1, 'user_id': 5 } history.replaceState(state, '', Links.current); curArticle = I('article-number-1'); console.log('curArticle', curArticle); curPath = curArticle.getAttribute('urlinfo'); console.log('curPath', curPath); } else { showingArticle = `article-number-${num - 1}`; console.log('showingArticle', showingArticle); curArticle = I(`article-number-${num}`); console.log('curArticle', curArticle); curPath = curArticle.getAttribute('urlinfo'); console.log('curPath', curPath); const urlInfo = I(showingArticle).getAttribute('urlinfo'); console.log('urlinfo', urlInfo); const url = new URL(urlInfo); triggerPageView(url.pathname, true); const state = { 'page_id': 1, 'user_id': 5 } history.replaceState(state, '', urlInfo); } } } let singleContainer = I('singleContainer').getBoundingClientRect(); if (sidebarWrap) { sidebarRect = sidebarWrap.getBoundingClientRect(); sidebarTop = sidebarRect.y; sidebarBottom = sidebarRect.y + sidebarRect.height; if (sidebarFreezeTrigger && window.scrollY < sidebarFreezeTrigger) { sidebarFreezeTrigger = null; sidebarWrap.style.position = 'static'; sidebarWrap.style.bottom = 'auto'; } else if (sidebarBottom <= window.innerHeight) { if(sidebarWrap.style.position !== 'fixed') { sidebarWrap.style.position = 'fixed'; sidebarWrap.style.bottom = '0px'; sidebarWrap.style.width = `${(singleContainer.width * .25) - 24}px`; sidebarFreezeTrigger = window.scrollY; } } } } function handleVideoResizing() { console.log('videoResize'); 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