Financial Technology Development
By Jeff Paul A top legal adviser to EU’s highest court recommended today that Bitcoin and other digital currencies should be exempt from Europe’s value-added tax. The European Union value added tax (VAT) is a tax…
By Torsten Hoffmann Bitcoin: The End Of Money As We Know It traces the history of money from the ancient world to the trading floors of Wall St. The documentary exposes the practices of central…
By Rhonda Schaffler Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne wants to use bitcoins to help “clean up” Wall Street. Byrne said his company will issue the world’s first “crypto bond,” to be traded on a platform the…
Early bitcoin programmer and developer of the Dark Wallet, Amir Taaki, recently spoke to Brave The World about his personal communication with the Silk Road’s original Dread Pirate Roberts, who we no know as Ross…
By Jeff Paul The founder of the cryptocurrency ranking and technical analysis website CoinCap.io, Erik Voorhees, took to Twitter today to point out that Litecoin’s daily exchange volume may have exceeded bitcoin’s for the first…
By Derrick Broze In another sign that the world is taking bitcoin seriously, an analyst with French bank BNP Paribas says bitcoin’s blockchain technology could make existing companies “redundant”. In BNP’s magazine Quintessence, analyst Johann…
By Andreas Antonopoulos Bitcoin offers a glimpse into the future of money — a purely digital form of money that is individual, private, global, and free (free as in speech, not as in beer). Bitcoin…
Lately there has been a great deal of debate around increasing the maximum block size allowed by the Bitcoin protocol because we’re approaching the current 1 MB limit. While this is no consensus about whether…
Stephanie, Andreas and Adam from Let’s Talk Bitcoin discuss the recent FINCEN settlement with Ripple Labs and its implications both for the protocol and the cryptocurrency space as a whole. Andreas Antonopoulos also analyzes Ripple’s…
Meet ShoCard, a startup that stores your identity onto bitcoin’s blockchain so that you can prove your identity whenever you need to. ShoCard wants to replace cumbersome bank and credit card identification processes with something much more secure…
