BTC-ARBS.com J.A.S. (Just Another Scam)
In five or ten years, the Bitcoin landscape is going to be very different than it is right now. In the last few months, the community has been hit over and over by hacks, thefts, mind-boggling amateurishness in businesses at…
Bitcoin Markets Being Manipulated with Rumors – via Open Intelligence
Our friends at Open Intelligence have sent us another interesting alert by way of the Bitcoinowl suggesting that the Bitcoin markets may be being victimized by corrupt players. Serge Schouterden wrote in this article on Bitcoinowl that CoinDesk might itself…
Bitcoin criminals are constant challenge
By Del Quentin Wilber, Bloomberg April 8, 2014 • Reprints Attorney General Eric Holder said the U.S. Justice Department is working to keep pace with Bitcoin and other virtual currencies to short-circuit their use in buying and selling illegal goods…
Bitcoin, the organism: Jeff Garzik at TED at
After helping to inaugurate CNN.com on the Internet in the early 1990s, Garzik worked at a succession of Internet startups and service providers for over two decades, all while working on open source software engineering projects. Involvement in one…
Middle Class Extinction: 9 Of The Top 10 Occupations In US Pay An Average Of Less Than $35k A Year
When you break that down, that means that most of these workers are making less than $3,000 a month before taxes. And once you consider how we are being taxed into oblivion, things become even more frightening. Can you pay a mortgage and support…
Bitcoin Breaks the Fourth Wall of Liberty
The most pressing problem evangelical bitcoiners and libertarians face is one of communication. Occasionally on purpose, but more often by accident, they erect four walls and create a barrier between their world and the rest of the world. They struggle…
The DJIA Is a Hoax
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) Index is the only stock market index that covers both the second and the third industrial revolution. Calculating share indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and showing this index in a historical…
Can Local Government Crypto-Currencies Help Tackle Poverty?
LOCAL GOVERNMENT CRYPTO-CURRENCY TO PAY VOLUNTEERS – If HullCoin can spark a new inclusive economy which creates gives poor people guaranteed material benefits (e.g. rent, tax and food) from poor people doing voluntary work, then the strategy should work in…