At the massive IBM InterConnect conference this week, over 20,000 of Big Blue’s fans packed Las Vegas’s Mandalay Bay to hear about the company’s transformative,…
Once again, we find ourselves at the dawn of a new year. And many would say, not a moment too soon. With a series of…
As the Bitcoin community struggles to reach a broad consensus over how to expand the blockchain’s block size, thus allowing Bitcoin to scale, a pro-Bitcoin…
Over the last several months, a controversy has been brewing in the world of Bitcoin. The entire Bitcoin infrastructure has a fast approaching hard-coded limit,…
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…
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.…
