Bitcoin an Antidote to Government Pork?
Usually I’m a big fan of David Stockman’s Contra Corner, but this piece went just a little over the line for me. Given the searing amount of hypocrisy oozing from the right side of the political sphere, this article seems…
From CopBlock: Bitcoin helps to defund the police state
By Amanda B. Johnson. Article courtesy of CopBlock 08/10/2014 What are the teeth of a police state? What are its claws? How can an organization continually act in direct opposition to the wishes of a population that it claims to…
PayPal Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services = A Boost for Bitcoin
This just in from Fjoddes.net: It appears that PayPay is beginning to deny service to virtual private network and smart DNS services. The reason is that these services make it easier for users to pirate media content worldwide and are…
Bitcoin for Terrorists – Another Red Herring
On September 11, 2011 I returned late from work. I threw together a quick dinner, opened a beer, and turned on the TV. I lived in Japan, as I still do, so nighttime for me was morning for New York….
Why Bitcoin’s Price both Does and Doesn’t Matter
Now with the Bitcoin price taking a short trip to the north, many of the big Bitcoin news sites are producing technical analysis articles talking about how resistance lines are being broken and that if we can just hold to…
Security is Not Only a Bitcoin Problem
For the general public, Bitcoin’s reputation has taken a pretty severe beating over the last year. The latest scandal to hit is news out of Hong Kong that the purported Bitcoin mining operation MyCoin has gone belly up with all…
Bitcoin Regulation – the Death of a Cryptocurrency or a Springboard to Adoption?
Bitcoin was founded on a principle of resistance to the abuses we have been seeing on Wall Street and other financial centers around the world aided and abetted by a corrupt, bought-and-paid-for political class. Libertarianism is built into the heart…
Staring Into the Crystal Ball of Bitcoin Chart-Watching
I’ve never been a big fan of chart watching, and I read technical analysis reports with the same kind of gimlet eye as I read horoscopes. Both chart readers and horoscopes speak to something deep in the human psyche. We…
BITCOMSEC and the Tracking of a Hacker
This is the story about how one hacker was able to infiltrate an up-and-coming exchange, steal its coins, and essentially leave it in ruins. No, it’s not Mt. Gox, unfortunately. This is the story of the demise of CyrptoRush.in as…
Can Bitcoin Remittances Really Work?
Over the last few weeks, even hardcore believers in Bitcoin have had a difficult time keeping positive as they watched the price of Bitcoin plunge through support line after support line. For a while, as it looked like we might…