Gems: The Next Generation Social App
Bitcoin is often compared to the Internet of the early 1990s. One of the reasons for the comparison is that is when the first wave of innovative companies really began to break on the scene and start creating the Internet…
bitcoinGET: Making Bitcoin Easy, Normal, and Fun in Japan
In the Bitcoin press there is often talk of what Bitcoin’s ‘killer app’ will be. Many look back to the Internet and can see that there were a few developments that marked points when people really started to notice and…
Bitcoin to Fund Terrorism – or Not
Repeat a lie often enough, and people will think it’s the truth. This truism is sometimes attributed to Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda master of the Third Reich. As much as we might like to believe that we’ve left this kind…
Zeenews: Bitcoin Tanks by 5 Billion
“(T)he halo around bitcoins and other virtual currencies appear to be fading and their combined market value has dipped to USD 6 billion from over USD 11 billion a year ago.” This is the opening shot in a Bitcoin hit…
Bitcoin’s Volatility: Flaw or Feature?
The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey, in their BitBeat column, offered up this observation on Bitcoin’s volatility: “After Wednesday’s stunning 16.42% gain in bitcoin’s price, the market has understandably taken a breather Thursday — and in the…
Digital Currency Council: An Interview with Perianne Boring
Interview by David Berger, CEO of the Digital Currency Council, with Perianne Boring of the Chamber of Digital Commerce – a trade association dedicated to advocating for digital currencies to public policy makers. David: Thanks for your time today, Perianne. Could you tell…
The Erosion of the Middle Class – Time for Plan Bitcoin
Today, the Republicans, the party of the plutocrats, took control of the Senate away from the Democrats, the party of the plutocrats-lite. All through this election cycle, I was getting emails from both sides of the political spectrum, from the…
Tackling the Difficult Bitcoin Market in the US: A Talk with Trucoin’s Brent James
When I first got interested seriously in Bitcoin, it was pretty hard to get. Many people were buying their bitcoins by sending money orders to addresses in Albania or Russia and hoping, based on the reputation the seller might have…
Negative PR Techniques At Work: An Attack on CryptoNote
By James Bolivar September 28, 2014 It is amazing that people pay so much attention to gossips while they have so many opportunities for growth and self-improvement. One would think, indeed, what is so interesting about Barbra Streisand’s…
The Reality of Inflation – Time for Plan B
It you look at the official inflation rate for the US right now, it’s 1.7%. For the cash-strapped American worker, this would seem to be one less thing they have to worry about. That is, unless you realize that this…