Hey, Where’d the Money Go?
MF Global traces its roots back over two centuries, starting as a sugar trading business in 1783, slowly expanding the range of its activities, but staying within the market of agricultural...
View ArticleDecentralized Currencies, Digital Panhandling, Startup Governments: It’s A...
If anyone had any doubts that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies would ever amount to anything in this world, after the events at Bitcoin 2013 it is safe to say that most of these doubts are now gone....
View ArticleBitcoin Foundation Provides Additional Grant to Coinpunk Project
The Bitcoin community continues to flourish as new developments are made in the area of wallet security and open source web-based wallet services. As Bitcoin grows in value and utility more users are...
View ArticleCrypto-anarchists Versus Government, Who Will Win The War to Regulate Bitcoin?
Earlier this year Benjamin Lawsky, New York’s financial services superintendent, said he intended to initiate the biggest move towards regulating bitcoin. Lawsky told CNN Money that he planned do this...
View ArticleAn Open Source World
“If you can, you should.” Never has this phrase been more applicable than in the realm of open source technology. For those not in the know, “open source” refers to any code or blueprint that has been...
View ArticleJohn Law Gambles with Bitcoin
This article was first published in Issue 16 of the print edition of Bitcoin Magazine. Today, John Law is often hailed as one of the greatest financial innovators of all time. What would he say about...
View ArticleCypherpunk Comic ‘Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto’ to launch Crowdfund on SWARM...
Alex Preukschat, Josep Busquet and José Ángel Ares, the trio behind The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto, the new Bitcoin Comic which previewed at CoinSummit and was recently written up on CoinDesk are...
View Article#wearesatoshi
This is the feature article forIssue 20. Explaining Bitcoin to a luddite is like explaining the plot of an action-drama movie. Failing exchanges! “Overnight” millionaires! Bank robberies! Drug-busts!...
View ArticleAn Interview With Bobby Lee, CEO of BTC China
Bobby Lee is the CEO of BTC China, a three year old exchange which he purchased in 2013. Following his purchase, Mr. Lee led a brisk expansion in market share that coincided with rising Bitcoin prices...
View ArticleSatoshi
This is a guest post by Derek Watson. So, it turns out that Satoshi Nakamoto is not Satoshi Nakamoto. According to Andreas Antonopoulos, who was charged with giving him the bitcoins that had been...
View ArticleHal Finney – We Salute You
Hal Finney was declared legally dead on August 28, 2014. It was a sad loss for the bitcoin community and with respectfully bowed heads we mourn his passing. Hal was a futurist and had an uncanny...
View ArticleCrypto-Anarchists and Cryptoanarchists
The word “crypto” is Greek in origin (from kryptós) and means “hidden” or “secret.” Cryptozoology is the study of hidden and rare animals, cryptography is the study of hidden or secret writings, etc....
View Article‘The Bitcoin-technology by itself is worth nothing’; an interview with Dark...
If Bitcoin has its enfant terrible, Amir Taaki is it. Living on a shoestring-budget in squats throughout Europe, Taaki is leading the anarchist Bitcoin-countermovement known as unSystem, has built the...
View ArticleIs Bitcoin the Red Pill? Unplugging the Matrix.
The premier decentralized digital currency Bitcoin has gained widespread mainstream attention over the last year. While many are embracing this new peer-to-peer payment system, others have voiced...
View ArticleArtists and Hackers Create “Parallel” Economy at Cryptoanarchy Institute
In 2003, a group of Czech guerilla artists called Ztohoven began leaving their marks on government-claimed property in Prague. They turned a neon heart on a castle into a question mark. They published...
View ArticleA Quantum Theory of Money and Value
This is a guest post by David Orrell, a mathematician and author of books including Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order (Yale University Press). He is currently working on a book about...
View ArticleBitcoin Must Be About the Mission Rather than the Money, Says MIT Media Lab...
Legendary Internet pioneer Nicholas Negroponte, a founder of the MIT Media Laband the One Laptop per Child initiative (OLPC), gave a controversial talk at theScaling Bitcoin workshop in Montreal. The...
View ArticleBlockstream Satellite: Broadcasting Bitcoin from Space
Yesterday a video teaser from blockchain technology company Blockstream created waves of excitement among enthusiasts of both cryptocurrencies and space. Most participants speculated that Blockstream...
View ArticleThe Genesis Files: How David Chaum’s eCash Spawned a Cypherpunk Dream
“You can pay for access to a database, buy software or a newsletter by email, play a computer game over the net, receive $5 owed you by a friend, or just order a pizza. The possibilities are truly...
View ArticleThe Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block
[ANNOUNCE] hash cash postage implementation The date is March 28, 1997, when the 2,000-or-so subscribers of the Cypherpunks mailing list receive an email with the above header in their inbox. The...
View ArticleThe Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It
All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name....
View ArticleThe Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin
As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Bitcoin! A Letter From Ross Ulbricht
Happy Birthday, Bitcoin! Bitcoin is turning ten, and like many of us, I feel like a proud parent, having watched it grow into its potential over the years. I guess I’m the estranged father in prison...
View ArticleLightning Torch’s Bitcoin Payment Is Running a Worldwide Marathon
A lightning network payment has been making global rounds on Bitcoin’s secondary layer. The payment, slowly accumulating in value with each passing, is 3.69 million satoshis strong and still going....
View ArticleOp Ed: Why Bitcoin’s “Toxic” Maximalism Makes Sense
Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported...
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