Bitcoin gets slower, smaller and more like Ethereum
Editor’s Note: Our writer Galen Moore (who previously wrote an analysis of STOs) attended the MIT Bitcoin Expo this weekend. These are his field notes on his interviews with a bunch of the leading...
View ArticleBitcoin 2.0: Sidechains And Ethereum And Zerocash, Oh My!
Strange, interesting, and wildly ambitious things are afoot in the world of Bitcoin and blockchains. I give you Zerocash, a completely anonymous currency; Ethereum, a blockchain platform designed to...
View ArticleA Bitcoin Battle Is Brewing
Did you know the Bitcoin community is riven by tension, drama, competing agendas, and at least two starkly different visions of our economic future? That even as major banks who thought of Bitcoin as...
View ArticleBitcoin Blazes New Trail In Emerging Markets
While the tech world is busy speculating about bitcoin's volatile value, cryptocurrency is making arguably its biggest impact in countries where the current price of 1 bitcoin exceeds the average...
View ArticleThe Bitcoin Blocksize Blackjack Mining Blues
Bitcoin: it's at a crucially important crossroads; it's approaching a crisis that threatens its very existence; it has never been more likely to erupt into enormous global importance. Which? Don't be...
View ArticleSidechains And Lightning, The New New Bitcoin
The great thing about Bitcoin, for a tech columnist like me, is that it's simultaneously over-the-top cinematic and technically dense. Richard Branson recently hosted a "Blockchain Summit" at his...
View ArticleMoney And Politics: Bitcoin’s Governance Crisis
A lot of intriguing and conflicting things have been said about Bitcoin in the past few years. Some see it as the salvation of the financial system, others as a new toy, appealing only to the...
View ArticleLiquid Bitcoin
Happy Halloween! Let's talk about the scariest thing in the tech world today. No, no, not bubbles, drones, or unicorns: Bitcoin. Seriously. (Mostly.) Whether you think it's a boondoggle scam, a...
View ArticleWhat Can We Call Blockchain To Help People Understand It?
Understanding blockchain technology is not for the average person. This is level 10,000 on the nerd scale. Which makes for a sizable challenge if you're a startup trying to build a business based on a...
View ArticleBitcoin searches for itself in the third episode of Bitcoin and the Blockchain
As Bitcoin has grown, it’s been forced to contend with a flood of traffic on the network. Developers are divided about what to do. The scalers want more transactions running through the blockchain. The...
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