Money Can and Should Be Private Property
I was daydreaming over the weekend. The subject: notable intellectual epiphanies I’ve experienced in the course of my life. These are moments when someone …
Bitcoin
Cryptography and the Money We Use
When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden wanted to talk to reporter Glenn Greenwald, he insisted that they use encrypted chat. Unfortunately, Greenwald didn’t know how …
Ground Zero in Crypto-Commerce
There were no cubicles, no executive suites, and no visible hierarchies of power. It was just a large open room with computers and desks, …
Bumps on the Bitcoin Road
Now that Bitcoin seems to be on the way toward monetization, or at least the long process is noticeably under way, there are a …
Sailor Tales From the Bitcoin Seas
As someone who only recently dived into the rocky Bitcoin waters — and discovered a world I had never imagined — I enjoy talking …
What Bitcoin Is Teaching Us
“Thanks to Bitcoin, I am now living debt-free, just today managed to pay off all of my credit card debt!” — so reports a …
Bitcoin for Beginners, Part II
In March, I was at a conference in New Hampshire when a few Bitcoin businessmen sat me down to lunch. It seems like the …
Bitcoin for Beginners
Understanding Bitcoin requires that we understand the limits of our ability to imagine the future that the market can create for us. That is …
Bitcoin’s Moment
Bitcoin may reach $100 today. That brings the total value of the existing Bitcoin stock (10,960,500) to more than $1 billion. It was only …
Deja Vu…All Over Again!
News hit the wires over the weekend that the Republic of Cyprus would begin stealing money from depositors in order to resurrect confidence in …