Bitcoin News
By Naomi Brockwell What makes Bitcoin valuable? Naomi Brockwell recently chatted with Erik Voorhees at Satoshi Roundtable about why Bitcoin is valuable and an ideal form of money. Subscribe to Naomi Brockwell on YouTube. Follow…
By Stefan Kløvning I used to be relatively passive to Bitcoin and crypto-currencies in general. I was long persuaded by Peter Schiff’s argument that Bitcoin was a bubble that would “have a very short life”…
By Vin Armani Author’s note: In this article, the term “Bitcoin” refers to any cryptocurrency network running a version of the consensus protocol described by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin White Paper. This includes, but…
By Vin Armani Author’s note: In this article, the term “Bitcoin” refers to any cryptocurrency network running a version of the consensus protocol described by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin White Paper. This includes, but…
By Vin Armani The seeming aversion to profit within certain influential sectors of the Bitcoin community has always struck me as a rather peculiar neurosis. Bitcoin is money. It’s designed specifically to be peer-to-peer cash,…
By Jamie Redman The cryptocurrency-friendly company Overstock.com announced on Thursday that company will be paying part of its business taxes to the state of Ohio using bitcoin. Overstock will use the state’s Ohiocrypto.com website to…
Today, CoinText.io, a service to send and receive cryptocurrency using text messages, launched its Bitcoin Cash (BCH) wallet in The Philippines (105M population). “The ability to send value over SMS is tailor-made for The Philippines,”…
By Vin Armani Centralization is bad. Decentralization is good. For years, this has been the mantra of the Bitcoin community. “Decentralized” is to adherents of the Bitcoin faith what “kosher” is to adherents of Judaism…
By Avi Mizrahi When reporting on cryptocurrency, the mainstream media often focuses on price drops relating to USD. But a human rights activist reminds the general public that Bitcoin is not another commodity or stock…
In this talk, Andreas Antonopoulos picks apart the false dichotomy of ‘rainbow’ market types (white, grey, black, red, blue), the underlying moral assumptions in these classifications, and why Bitcoin’s colorblindness matters in a world where…
