You’re Working More and Making Less
This post originally appeared on Mother Jones. We’ll be posting a new chart on the current state of income inequality every day for the next couple of weeks. Yesterday’s chart looked at the history of the 1 percent, from ancient Rome to…
The Economic Recovery for the 1%
Matthew Yglesias calls this chart, from Pavlina Tcherneva, an economist at the Levy Economic Institute at Bard College, “the most important chart about the American economy you’ll see this year.” It illustrates how much income gains those at the top have enjoyed during…
What is a Bitcoin ‘Hash’?
When trying to explain Bitcoin to people, one of the things that turns them off is the amount of jargon that they need to deal with – and the fact that a lot of that terminology doesn’t really mean what…
A Talk with Bitbank’s Emily Liu – Formerly of Mt. Gox
Watching the progress of Bitcoin over the last few months has been a funny thing: After the slew of hacks and thefts toward the end of 2013 culminating in the massive collapse of Mt. Gox, the price went into a…
Anycoin Direct: Making Bitcoin Available Across Europe
— Sponsored Post — In 1637, Amsterdam had a brisk tulip market going. One tulip bulb traded for ten times what a skilled craftsman could expect to make for the year. People invested like crazy … until the crash brought…
Talking Bitcoin Regulation and Compliance with David Long, JD
By Mark Norton: Editor @ BitcoinWarrior.net 9/18/2014 On January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto embedded a message in the very first block of Bitcoin’s blockchain in order to prove that the block could not have been created before that date….
Crowdfunding Your Project with BitPieces: A Talk with Tyler Houlihan
By Mark Norton: Editor @ BitcoinWarrior.net According to the Small Business Administration, about 600,000 new businesses are started just in the US each year. Each one of these businesses represents the hopes and dreams of the person or people founding…
Bitcoin and Israel: A Talk with Eli Sklar of the Israel Bitcoin emBassy
By Mark Norton: Editor @ BitcoinWarrior.net Eli Sklar is one of the thousands of people around the world who are innovating, educating, and pushing for Bitcoin use and adoption. He is CTO at the Bitcoin emBassy in Tel Aviv as…
Are Bitcoins Better Than Credit Cards?
By Mark Norton: Editor @ BitcoinWarrior.net More and more, the US is becoming a cashless society. Slowly over the years, as the number of people carrying cards and the number of merchants that accept cards has grown, it has become…
Bitok: A New, Fast, Secure Trading and Mining Platform
–sponsored post– Bitcoin Innovations LTD has announced the launch of a new crypto-currency market exchange, Bitok.com, offering trading between a broad range of fiat and digital currencies, including Bitcoin and many altcoins. In addition, Bitok offers mining contracts for a…