Talking Bitcoin Security with Alena Vranova of Trezor
In the two and a half years I’ve been involved with Bitcoin, one of the nagging concerns I’ve had is the question of how to secure my bitcoins. I learned early the dictum to never trust another with my private…
A Talk with Panagiotis Pollis on Greece, Bitcoin, and His New Site, BitForTip.com
I was recently contacted by Panagiotis Pollis, a Greek national who has created a new website, BitForTip.com, where people can get tipped Bitcoin for answer questions posted on the site. He wanted to know how he could advertise on Bitcoin…
An Interview with BetVIP’s Founder Daniel Schwartzkopff
One of the first types of truly successful businesses that cropped up in the Bitcoin space was, pretty-well naturally, gambling. Bitcoin and gambling have a lot to offer each other: there’s the ability to transfer money anywhere, anytime for practically…
Conflicting Interests May Drag Bitcoin Down
Bitcoin, a peer-to peer online payment system that was conceived in 2008, has experienced considerable growth in popularity and has increasingly been adopted as a viable payment scheme in mainstream electronic commerce. However, according to researchers, the decentralized and quasi-anonymous…
New Jersey May Double Tax Bitcoin Sales
In New Jersey, if you accept bitcoin as a retailer, you must collect sales tax — twice. That’s the word from the New Jersey Division of Taxation, which has issued a technical advisory memorandum spelling out the tax implications of…
Why Forbes’ Tim Worstall is Wrong about Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s death knell has rung out many times by now, and its naysayers are still in force. A reader perusing the many articles attacking or mocking Bitcoin point out the tremendous problems Bitcoin has a currency, as a store of…
AG Holder Ends (Some) Asset Seizures
This just in from Ars Technica: Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the Department of Justice would be stopping a local and police from participating in a program called ‘Equitable Sharing’ in which the police departments would be able…
Journal Gazette Gets it Wrong on Bitcoin
Fort Wayne’s Journal Gazette shows us once again how deficient our current Fourth Estate is. Journalists, whether they be on TV or writing in magazines or newspapers are reasonably expected to know something about what they are reporting on, or…
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…
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…