Bitcoin Ownership and its Impact on Fungibility
Tatiana Cutts, a university law lecturer, examines the subject of bitcoin ownership and whether it impacts the fungibility of the digital currency.
A Bitcoin Fork Should be Avoided at All Costs
Anywhere you look, there seems to be a consensus that something has to change with the size of the Bitcoin blocks. Words like “scaling” come up a lot, and how we must be able to compete with Visa and MasterCard if everyday people are ever going to take Bitcoin seriously. While this may be true, […]
Goldman Sachs Learns About Bitcoin From Andreessen Horowitz
Balaji Srinivasan, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and founder of the research-based Stanford Bitcoin Group, and Jerry Brito, executive director of Coin Center (a startup focusing on public policy issues for digital currency called), discussed Bitcoin for Goldman Sachs in one of their Talks@GS sessions. In Srinivasan’s explanation on why Andreessen Horowitz believes Bitcoin will […]
Did Mathematician John Nash Help Invent Bitcoin?
Digital money researcher Travis Patron explains why the late American mathematician John Nash may have influenced the creation of bitcoin.
Major Challenges Facing Bitcoin Adoption
Bitcoin has already been existence for more than half a decade yet it has a long way to go before achieving mainstream acceptance. In fact, the challenges facing bitcoin back then are still pretty much the same ones it is struggling to surpass now. The Trouble with Bitcoin When it was first introduced, the main […]
Bitcoin Advance Resumes But May Soon Reverse
We all want Bitcoin price advance and sooner would be better than later. Acknowledged. Yet, at the risk of being a wet blanket, it has to be pointed out that the current wave still fits with our consolidative outlook and may not continue advancing this time round. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a […]
Anonymous Casino – Provably Fair Bitcoin and Litecoin Gambling For Punters Worldwide
Bitcoin Press Release: Managed by Nabelse Holdings in Cyprus, Anonymous Casino offers industry standard provably fair Bitcoin and Litecoin gaming with instant registration and no personal details required. Estabished in 2014, digital currency casino Anonymous Casino offers both Bitcoin and Litecoin bets, one click registration, a multi-language feature, provably fair games, and instant transactions. Anonymous […]
Are Bitcoin Startups Bound to Crush the Banks?
Bitcoin Startups are getting into every sector of the financial business, and the banks know it. Online businesses have been threatening the banks, and now a massive wave of Bitcoin startups are innovating the financial sector up to the point that banks needed to act. Personal-finance startups are helping consumers balance their checkbooks online. Refinancing […]
Podcast 8: Erik Vorhees Talks Apple Store & John Light Tells Us About the Bitcoin Bitseed Project
In this episode, I talk to Erik Vorhees of ShapeShift.io about the new ShapeShift iOS application, available now in the Apple Store. We feature the song “Give me a Sign” by Bitcoin-supporting band 22Hertz out of Ontario. And for the large part of the episode, I interviewed John Light, host of P2P Connects Us and […]
Teenager in Virginia Helped ISIS Use Bitcoin
A teenager in Virginia pled guilty to charges of helping ISIS use bitcoin to fund its operations. The tech-savvy teenager admitted to using social media under the handle @Amreekiwitness to provide the terror group with instructions on how to use the cryptocurrency. Ali Shukri Amin, 17, also offered guidance to Isis supporters seeking to travel to ISIS […]