By Paul Jones This brief article helps to clear up a common misconception about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is frequently portrayed as the chosen currency of crooks.…
Are you ready to see over $5.7 billion go up in a puff of smoke? Well, stay tuned. That number is the market value of…
By Joseph Spear Christmas Future. This time next year, so much may well have changed. Perhaps for some, we may be reinvented but hopefully not unrecognisable.…
Ah, yes, the holiday season. A surprising dearth of snow, crass commercialism, yet another skirmish in the perennial ‘war on Christmas.’ And sure enough, the…
In last week’s article for Forbes, I questioned the purpose of the radically innovative cybercurrency Bitcoin. Libertarians, criminals, speculators, and consumers all have an angle…
By Yessi Bello Perez It wasn’t all good news for bitcoin. Following Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht’s life sentence last week, it was not surprising to see…
Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht’s recent conviction and life sentence was more than simply a crackdown on a massive online black market for illegal drugs.…