Corporations, US presidential candidate Mitt Romney reminds us, are people. Whether or not you agree with the conclusions that his partisans draw from that claim, the statement certainly carries...
Recently, there has been a considerable amount of interest in making Bitcoin usable in environments where the technological comforts that we take for granted every day are simply not...
Conferences have become a big part of the Bitcoin community this year. Over a thousand people came to the Bitcoin conference in San Jose, and nearly every month since...
Over the past five months, Sean's Outpost has come to be perhaps the most well-known charity in the Bitcoin community. Sean's Outpost, a homeless shelter in Pensacola, Florida run...
Alternative cryptocurrencies, like Litecoin, Primecoin and PPCoin, have gotten a significant amount of bad press recently. Lead Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen wrote an article criticizing altcoins as being a way of getting around Bitcoin’s 21 million...
See also the first part of this series, and our previous entry on BitStampOver the past ten months, Coinbase has become well known in the United States for being one of the...
See also: our “Introducing The Exchanges” article on BitStamp.In the year since the site first launched, Coinbase has come to be one of the most important and influential companies...
With representatives from the Bitcoin Foundation currently meeting high-level officials from a number of US regulatory agencies, the topic of Bitcoin anonymity has once again taken center stage. In...
The mining company Cointerra has announced its official launch today, offering what may be the most advanced Bitcoin mining hardware currently on the market. The company’s signature miner, the...
If you have been involved in Bitcoin for any significant length of time, you have probably at least heard of the idea of “proof of work”. The basic concept...
