Aaron Van Wirdum

Some of the most popular Bitcoin services on the internet may have leaked sensitive user information, including passwords.Cloudflare is a popular content delivery network that effectively acts as a...

Bitcoin was never really anonymous, and it seems the Danish police have caught on to that fact. According to reports by Danish newspaper Berlingske, law enforcement in the Scandinavian...

Not everyone loves the latest draft of the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF proposal.The (prospective) Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, also known as “COIN,” filed new documents to the U.S. Securities and Exchange...

Satoshi Nakamoto’s math doesn’t quite add up.In chapter 11 of the Bitcoin white paper, the pseudonymous author explained that an honest mining majority will always outrun a dishonest minority....

The price collapse of “black gold” locked Nigerians into their economy. Now, “digital gold” is providing some Nigerians with a way out.Only three years ago, crude oil cost over...

TumbleBit is probably one of the most promising technological advancements built on top of Bitcoin to date. Not only does it offer one of the best — if not...

The US Postal Service is actively hiring darknet market experts to combat illegal activity

It appears that the Venezuelan authorities have had enough of Bitcoin. Over the past two weeks, police in the Latin American country arrested eight Bitcoin miners in three different...

As the Dutch proverb goes: “The soup is not eaten as hot as it is served.” Meaning: The threat is often not carried through as thoroughly as initially presented.Bitcoin...

The central idea behind Bitcoin Unlimited — specified in “Bitcoin Unlimited Improvement Proposal 001” (BUIP001) — is to hand control of Bitcoin’s block size limit to users and miners. Or perhaps, more accurately, to make this control more explicit and easier to handle. Instead, Bitcoin Unlimited relies on a philosophy often referred to as “Emergent Consensus.”