Is Bitcoin a Viable Currency?
Bitcoin has been making headlines for months now. Extreme price fluctuations have sparked a vigorous debate: Is it a currency or a scam? Is …
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Strolling down the Silk Road
The Silk Road was an undercover website where you could buy or sell illegal goods — drugs mainly. I believe passports were changing hands …
Bitcoin: Segway, Cigarette, or Gold Doubloon?
The market has selected different things as money throughout history. Some of these items have served as money in isolated places for specific periods …
Bitcoin Bytes Back
[Ed. Note: This article originally published on Jan. 24, 2013] Stocks up. Gold down. Bitcoin… waaay up. The S&P 500 busted through the 1,500 …
The Cure for the Broken Monetary System
Before the housing market collapsed and the government pumped billions into the economy to save it, there was a programmer named Satoshi Nakamoto. And …
Has the Fed Met Its Match?
Now, this is sheer entertainment. The Chicago branch of the Federal Reserve has addressed the great monetary question of our day. A researcher has …
The End of the Deep Web? Nope.
It was a wild ride last week in the world of the Deep Web, that section of the Internet that requires special tools to …
Inside Scoop on the Next Fed Chairman
Following an extensive investigation, The Martian can reveal that it is neither Lawrence Summers nor Janet Yellen who will be the next chairman of …
Is Bitcoin Real or Not?
A frightening story this week in The New Yorker tells of a Texas couple that headed toward the Texas-Louisiana border to buy a used …
Getting Serious About Freedom
Is there anything that we can do to stop the government’s data mining of our email, phone calls, and other digital habits? I moderated …