Tulip Mania is the go-to story whenever someone wants to talk about humanity’s penchant for irrational exuberance in financial markets. But it might be a myth.
One of Bitcoin’s best features is its openness. Any person (or group of people) can build products that use the open-source network without needing someone else’s permission. This has...
In May of this year, start-up Coinme released their first Robocoin kiosk at the Spitfire sports bar in downtown Seattle. On October 1st of this year, they added to...
Bobby Lee is the CEO of BTC China, a three year old exchange which he purchased in 2013. Following his purchase, Mr. Lee led a brisk expansion in market...
This article first appeared on page 26 of Issue 21.You probably don't think about Marxism when you think about Bitcoin. To most people, Marx is known as the guy...
For the past two weeks, the Bitcoin community has been buzzing with worry over the mining pool GHash.io. Founded in July 2013, the pool has quickly risen to become...
The Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) has released an economic note on the state of Bitcoin regulation in Canada and around the world. The MEI is an independent research and...
So far in 2014, the biggest news in popular economics has been Thomas Piketty and his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It has struck a nerve with a...
As a resident of western Washington, I was happy to find out that a Bitcoin ATM had recently been installed at the Spitfire sports bar in downtown Seattle. I...
You can hate globalization or love it. But you cannot deny that, today, we are living in the most interconnected global society the world has ever known. For the...
