KLIPPT: Bitcoin/Colored Coin IPOs Get Started with a Hair Cut
There is a little bit of a feeling of ‘hurry up and wait’ about Bitcoin. On the one hand, it’s a revolutionary technology with huge potential as a currency, an asset, and as a decentralized method to do all…
Moyers: Why Haven’t Big Bankers Been Prosecuted for Creating Housing Crisis that Led to the Great Recession? (Video)
One might well wonder how crimes on the scale of the big banks’ – which precipitated the crisis in the housing market leading to what is popularly referred to as the great recession – can go unpunished. Sure there have been a handful of fines…
Bill Moyers Essay: Wall Street’s Secret Weapon: Congress
Why haven’t any big bankers been prosecuted for their role in the housing crisis that led to the Great Recession? These finance executives took part in “scandals that violate the most basic ethical norms,” as the head of the IMF Christine Lagarde…
Bitcoin: Currency or commodity?
By Abe Cofnas June 16, 2014 • Reprints Last fall we saw bitcoin receive an unusual amount of attention. The upstart crypto currency had an exponential rise from $125 to more than $1,125 per unit on Bitstamp, only to fall back below $500 this spring…
Of Bitcoin’s Improving PR and Price Stagnation
For nearly two years, we have been following Bitcoin in the mainstream news. For the most part, we’d have to say that the coverage has been bad. Drugs, money laundering, Ponzi and pyramid schemes, hacks, thefts, bankruptcies, arrests… For…
Expresscoin: The Coinbase for the Unbanked
Santa Monica-based bitcoin and dogecoin exchange expresscoin has officially launched after months of under-the-radar testing. The formal launch marks the final rebranding of Cash Into Coins as expresscoin, a move that co-founder and CEO Will Wheeler…
Bitcoin Schism
Centralisation versus distributed anonymity The centralisers can be shut down by central bankers and subject to hacking a la Mt Gox. They are also in a better position to manipulate markets. The distributed network model has yet to be tested…
“Commodity” is the Right Way to Pitch Bitcoin
A persistent meme amongst bitcoiners is the rollercoaster. There is nothing like holding a stash of bitcoins and watching the price to make you hold on for dear life (HODL – the cry of many a bitcoiner) or want to…
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…