Bitcoin Media Watch: Ann Pettifor Attacks Bitcoin – A Response
It’s a funny thing. You would think that Bitcoin would offer something of interest for those on both the right and left side of the political spectrum. It is a money that returns financial control to the hands of the…
Trump, Bitcoin, and the Case for the Nuclear Option
Right now there is so much going on in Washington that it’s difficult to keep tabs on what’s really important. For me, the most important event being played out is the fight over the nomination of Neil Gorsuch for the…
Bitcoin Fundamentals, and Price, Continue to Improve
As the price of Bitcoin seems to be pushing once more to top 1,000, some of the old excitement that used to ripple through the Bitcoin community seems to be coming back–more reserved and cautious, perhaps, but coming back. There…
Hedge Funds Hit Record 3 Trillion Assets Under Management: Shades of 2008
This out of Bloomberg: the hedge fund industry that (in part) brought us the great crash of 2008, now about more than three TRILLION dollars under management. This is a doubling of the amount of money under hedge fund control…
Will MasterCard Send Kill Bitcoin?
With all due respect to Betteridge’s Law, which states that any opinion piece headline that is a yes/no question will invariably be answered no, the answer is… no. MasterCard Send is a new service that will allow card holders to…
Bitcoin and the Nuclear Clean Up of Pacific Islands
Between 1977 and 1980, the US military cleaned up the Enewetak Islands of nuclear debris created by years of testing done over the islands. The reason for the cleanup effort was, seemingly noble, to prepare the islands to be…
Fiverr Stops Accepting Bitcoin-What It Means
Fiverr, the global marketplace for service beginning at just five dollars (hence the name) has announced that they have ceased taking Bitcoin as payment for their gigs. They began taking the currency in February of 2014 but have decided to…
Fighting for Facts in the Media – The Daily Signal Vs. NPR
Why we need a global, decentralized, non-governmental, non-bank, deflationary currency: There was never really any mystery about how the new Trump administration was going to handle how it treats the press, or in how it tells its side of things…
What Was In Trump’s Inauguration Address
Why we need a non-government backed, no-need for banks, decentralized, world-wide, deflationary currency: The fact of the matter is, no matter how technologically cool Bitcoin might be, it still has a long, hard, uphill battle to fight if it’s going…
Civil Forfeiture and Bitcoin
Why do we need a global, decentralized, deflationary money without the need of a bank or government? The problem of government is not that, as Ronald Reagan had us believe, that government was the problem, but rather that it makes…