Bitcoin & AI: Trap for Sex Traffickers

Marcell Nimfuehr

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The Startup

4 min readDec 10, 2018

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Source: Cristian Newman, Unsplash

Rebecca Portnoff from Berkley University created an algorithm that can track sex traffickers with the help of Bitcoin.

Many prostitutes do not offer their services voluntarily. They are often abducted, sold and forced into prostitution. This range of services is shifting more and more to the Internet in order to offer…

Marcell Nimfuehr

Written by Marcell Nimfuehr

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Writer, tech startup founder, MBA candidate. Communication strategist. Software Dev (worst coder ever)

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