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…
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…
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…
Bitcoin Alternative HYPER Announces Anonymous Mobile Accessible Web Wallet With Staking And Many More Cryptocurrency Gaming Competitions
Bitcoin Press Release: Gaming cryptocurrency HYPER is pleased to announce the world’s first mobile accessible staking web wallet with fully anonymous and obfuscated transactions to be released in alpha shortly. Free HYPER is being offered to web wallet testers as…
Overcoming Bitcoin’s Flaws
For all the promise that Bitcoin has for transforming the financial world and improving the future outlook of millions, maybe billions, there is no denying that there a few things to worry about. The things that keep us up at…
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…
Bitcoin Alternative DNotes Celebrates As One Of The First Long Term Alternative Cryptocurrencies
With savings plans and several innovative initiatives long term cryptocurrency DNotes continues to celebrate progress made in 2014 with scheduled roll-outs of many more Cryptocurrency Investment Savings Plans (CR.I.S.P) using newly launched DNotesVault. Established US based cryptocurrency DNotes has had…