The Silk Road, the worlds largest online anonymous market famous for its wide collection of illicit drugs and its use of Tor and Bitcoin to protect its users privacy, reports that...
The author is involved in the Ethereum project. The author has no relationship with BitGo, Bitrated, Codius or CryptoCorp.Update: Ben Davenport from Bitgo has replied, saying that they already...
Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen-year-old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK and maybe not have not yet decided to collude with each...
This post was published on bitcoinmagazine.com on June 8th, 2013The past few days we have seen shocking revelations from the sphere of digital communications. The Guardian published a leaked...
Disclosure: the author of this article is a partner at KryptoKitOne of the more exciting things to come out of the Bitcoin economy in the last month is the...
Adam Back and Austin Hill announced on Let’s Talk Bitcoin their newest project: “sidechains”. The idea, they described, would allow for the existence of alternative blockchains, perhaps with different rules allowing various kinds of additional features or transaction types, but with a currency unit whose value is pegged to that of the bitcoin.
Altcoins, or alternative cryptocurrencies such as ,Primecoin and Dogecoin, have always been a popular and controversial topic in the Bitcoin space. The purpose of most of these currencies is...
Wu Zhengfu, a top-level official in the People's Bank of China, has made a public announcement that April Fools day jokes are now officially banned in the country. A...
The Bitcoin price has undeniably been in a strong bear market these last two months. From an initial value of $800 at the end of January, the currency has...
Bitcoin multisig wallets have tremendous potential for increasing the security of funds and giving technology tools to enforce corporate governance. Over the past month we have seen a large...
