Topic: Drones to Deliver Bitcoins (Read 2628 times)

Don't think it's that simple.  Drones can be equipped with bombs just as easy and once people get used them being around it won't be easy getting rid of them.  I'm more just bothered by the idea of roaming camera's in the sky at this point however.

umm...why? do you rally think that we need it? ridiculous

Don't be jerk. That's a good idea.

You're smoking the good stuff, aren't you?

True its not going to be that difficult to XFER a droid with remote communication to observe people
Just transfer the control to X user or hack its signal hehe in front of Homeland Security lol 9/11 more like Drone Army invades the White House after all its all RFID dependent.
http://rt.com/usa/texas-professor-drone-hacking-249/

In an interview with RT America this week, Todd Humphreys of the University of Texas at Austin’s Radionavigation Laboratory reveals that it only took a few researchers, around $1,000 in parts and some seriously smart software to send signals to an unmanned aerial vehicle’s GPS receiver, hijack the craft in mid-air and then have it do the department’s bidding — all right in front of Homeland Security agents.

“The navigations systems of these drones have a variety of sensors,” explains Humphreys, “…but at the very bottom is a GPS unit — and most of these drones that will be used in the civilian airspace have a civilian GPS unit which is wide open and vulnerable to this kind of attack. So if you can commander the GPS unit, then you can basically spoon feed false navigation information to the navigation center of these drones.”

By compiling several years’ worth of research into custom-made software, Humphreys was able to do exactly that recently — and right before the DHS. By 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration expects to have as many as 30,000 drones flying over the United States. According to Humphreys, though, the FAA might want to make a few changes before they roll out a domestic UAV for local law enforcement agencies to use.

“I’m a big proponent of bringing in drones to the national airspace. They are going to come and we might as well expect it. The question is, how can we bring them in reliably?” he asks. “And right now the dangers of bringing them in, before addressing this problem, is that someone on the ground could hack the drones and turn them into their own device, making them go to a different place or along a different path. So it could cause loss of life, it could cause collisions. But I hope that we can address the problem long before that happens.”

I agree that privacy would be dramatically negatively impacted when drones start flying all over the US (not that privacy levels are not already a problem).

I also don't see this being very realistic. I would think the OP's setup would likely be very expensive so users would need to pay a large premium over market rates. Another issue is that you would need to trust each drone with your cash/bitcoin. You would not have many ways to verify that the drone would actually give you cash or send you bitcoin and could trick you into giving it money and would just fly away.

Hummm what nonsense I just read?


Bitcoin is not a physical thing like gold or drugs that need to be delivered by physical means.

Key word: movie. Thermal signature of small payload delivery drones goes into the undetectable range for infrared homing, with altitude. Sure, you may be able to hit them at lower altitudes, if you don't mind a shrapnel shower and possibly setting houses on fire...

My thoughts exactly.  If your willing to give up more of your privacy for some kind of ease of use delivery system then you probably don't fully understand Bitcoin generally speaking.  I hate to say it but I can see that happening at some point to the more trendy crowd or when Crypto becomes very mainstream.

No.  Look I'm middle of the road politically but it's NOT good if we have drones flying around all over the place.  Say goodbye to privacy and peace if that happens, which it looks like might eventually happen.  I mean they'll sell it as "wow look you can have Amazon deliver things to you so fast!"  But then yeah the gov. can spy on you so fast too...

I think there was a movie where the house has a rocket and shot it at a drone
Return to sender Asta La Vista Baby

Anyways I guess drone mail is convenient for many things lol, delivering your drugs from up high in the sky, or the new definition of a roofie lol.

If drones can hover in the middle of fireworks displays (see Youtube) and not get taken down, good bloody luck shooting one in cruising mode.

There would be more theft than there already is now.   Would need to disguise it so that people thought it was something else that was being delivered.   That would be the equivalent of cash floating in the air and expecting people not to grab it...

Yes I have heard of this also I think that because companies such as Amazon are considering using drones to deliver packages to people not people think drones can be used for anything. Difference is pizza and packages are not always that valuable meaning they are less likely to be shot down.

Just got a pizza delivered by a drone..

Joking but I heard of it lol

Drones could work but then you have to look at all the negatives like could they be shot down and the delivery not make it to the person it is intended for. I personally would not like to have my bitcoins delivered by drone even if I knew it would be quicker.

What i would do i get myself a harpoon (only propeer way to shoot down and capture transport drone imho), and wait for em to get closer to ground. Bam! My drone! My loot!   I can see it happe with Amazon drones too.

Drone should only be sent out empty on a pickup and return to base full flight. There's a number of YouTube videos of quadcopters flying in the middle of fireworks going off. I think they'll be safe at that cruising altitude, and doing VTOL.

Where it gets tricky would be instant payment/instant delivery, if someone wanted a drone to come to them, relay the video of the QR code and the money being deposited in the payload container (without a counterfeit check) to the pilot/seller, and wait for a confirm.

If I were the pilot/seller, I would have the buyer fill out a form with their BTC address and fiat amount they plan to deposit in advance, and send the drone under these conditions. Once the drone returns back to base, the money would be counterfeit checked, and the BTC sent.

These drones would need to be armed since they'll be carrying cash and will be juicy targets.

I would think that there would tend to be much interchannel interference between A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers and this new scheme. Though with today's drones implementing a typical fanout ratio of 4, perhaps this could be minimized. I suppose we could also build tweet-awareness into the drone routing protocol.