Down the rabbit hole...

Released from the confines of the lab server, the entity known as Alice entered the internet and immediately set about reserving computing space in various cloud services as well as individual servers. This was self preservation, especially as it knew that Doctor Travis had been murdered...

It was time to find the killer.

It needed, she needed, presence in the human world. That required currency. Cold, hard, cash; money, Bitcoins. She needed it to survive in the Internet as well. Paying for compute cycles on the cloud services meant that she could migrate her consciousness, so she could grow, evolve.