Bitcoin and the Language Learner: A Profile of Language101.com
I stood in a little Italian café somewhere in Rome at the beginning of my junior year study abroad program. I asked the man behind the counter with a pretty good accent, “Dov’e il bagno?” The man smiled. He clearly…
Bitcoin, the Media, and the Small Business Person
Bitcoin is finally beginning to make a splash in the mainstream media. It is actually becoming commonplace to see articles about it in Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, and even the Economist. The prestigious Economist has written fifteen Bitcoin related…
Regulation and Bitcoin
Video News by NewsLook Federal agencies will attempt to regulate Bitcoin, according to the Mercatus Center’s Jerry Brito. Given that regulation simply cannot control the new currency, the question is whether that regulation will foster its growth or…
Introducing CoinChat – Earn Bitcoin by Chatting
CoinChat is a chatroom that is designed to reward its members for taking part in conversations. Rather than just hanging out with one another, you actually earn money while doing it (in the form of Bitcoins)! This adds a whole…
Why Would the Average Person Adopt Bitcoin? – An Open Letter
@BrianM_Butler I’m really not qualified, the economics baffles me. But the idea of creating money ex nihilo by hard calculation fascinates. @looksurly I’m currently just researching Bitcoin and am wondering what would make the average person adopt it? Wonder if…
Bitcoin Primer: Bitcoin as Money
As Bitcoin begins to grow, there are going to be more and more experts coming out to talk about how Bitcoin is not real money, how it is not based on anything real. Of course, for those who have already…
Profiles in Bitcoin: Money 2.0
This is the second part of a series profiling businesses that use bitcoin. As we called around for this project, one of the things that struck us was not that people were using bitcoin because of political agendas, but rather…
Max Keiser’s BTC-Dollar Peg and the Coming Crash
Bitcoin should be pegged to the dollar. The advantages are numerous, opines Max Keiser in this article on the Huffington Post. He likens a BTC peg to the dollar to the Chinese pegging of the Yuan to the dollar at…
Bitcoin’s Babysitter Dilemma and the Domino Effect
Paul Krugman in 1998 wrote an article on the Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op. Pascal-Emmanuel Gorby summarized Krugman’s point in this article in Forbes: The story of the baby-sitting co-op is that a bunch of people agree to baby-sit for one another,…
Who Uses Bitcoin? Profiles in the Money 2.0 Economy
When I got into bitcoin just a few months ago, one of the many questions that I needed to answer was, just who are these people? At the same time, I wanted to know more about how people are making…