Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin
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Five Reasons You Should Not Use the Internet

The sudden rise of the internet may not be the biggest news story in the past fifteen years, but it was certainly the most entertaining. Over the course of...

LibertyBit Suspends Operations

LibertyBit, the second largest Bitcoin exchange in Canada, has announced that it is suspending its operations and returning all funds to customers. The root cause of the shutdown is...

The Rest of the Year: Bitcoin Convention Roundup

So far, we have had one major Bitcoin conference this year, and the event proved to be an astounding success. Over a thousand people showed up, panelists discussed issues...

BTCGlobal: Commoditizing The Bitcoin Exchange

As Coinsetter CEO Jaron Lukasiewicz pointed out in his letter last week, Bitcoin exchange is rapidly becoming a capital-intensive industry. On a technical level, Bitcoin exchanges are under constant...

Bitcoin Is Not Losing Its Soul – Or, Why the Regulation Hysteria is Missing the Point

The mainstream media has taken a predictable turn in their treatment of the series of regulatory incidents regarding Bitcoin-related services this month. Technology Review wrote that Bitcoin is now...

Month In Review: May

The Bitcoin community took a rather heavy beating this month. Our leading exchange, Mt. Gox, was sued by its former partner Coinlab, lost three of its deposit and withdrawal...

Has The Fall of MtGox Already Begun?

MtGox has suffered considerably over the past two months. All within the relatively short period of April and May 2013, we have seen the following:During the Bitcoin crash of...

Bitcointalk At War With Ad Blockers

Over the past day or so, an ongoing arms race between the popular Bitcoin forum Bitcointalk and EasyList, by far the most popular filter list for the ad blocking...

Liberty Reserve Shut Down For Money Laundering

Liberty Reserve, one of the more popular alternative payment processors for the USD and Euro, has been shut down and its owner, Arthur Budovsky, arrested in Spain as part...

BitInstant: We Have Money Transmitter Licenses in 30 States

Regulation has been a hot topic in the Bitcoin community since the FINCEN guidance in March, and in the Bitcoin conference that took place this past weekend an entire...

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