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When registering for banks or exchanges online you will be asked to show your ID to the webcam. The quality of my notebook webcam is poor, so the automatic ID verification failed again and again. I looked up ways to provide a picture taken with my phone (or any picture) as if it was coming from my webcam.

In a future in which most things are automated and, above all, everyday or monotonous work is no longer carried out by people, the question arises: What work can a simple person still do? Intellectual, creative, unique work that cannot (yet) be automated! Salman Khan is founder of the learning platform Khan Academy. In his TED talk he shows a possible way to prepare the masses for these new activities, with an education system in which it is all about mastering intellectual skills instead of accumulating gaps in knowledge year after year. ...

Today, for the first time, I payed for a flight with Bitcoin. I am traveling from Finland back to Germany with AirBaltic. They offer common payment options from wire transfer over credit card to–yes!–bitcoin. Bitcoin was the only free one.