HomeCULTURE

CULTURE

Discover Bitcoin Magazine’s Culture category – explore how Bitcoin shapes society, art, and lifestyle in the digital age.

CULTURE

VeriBlock’s Bitcoin-Backed Security Protocol Goes Live

Jessie Willms -
After a year on its testnet, the VeriBlock blockchain has gone live on the Bitcoin mainnet, allowing exchanges, wallet providers, merchants and other crypto businesses to leverage Bitcoin’s blockchain security.
CULTURE

U.K. Brexit Deal Beamed Into Space Through Blockstream’s Satellite Messaging App

Jimmy Aki -
Blockstream's satellite messaging app has launched on Bitcoin’s mainnet and one enterprising bitcoiner has used the platform to beam the U.K.’s proposed Brexit deal into space.
CULTURE

Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem

Kyle Torpey -
In a SXSW panel discussion, IBM’s Christopher Ferris asked bitcoiner Jimmy Song if he was arguing for anarchy over a regulated financial system . In this op ed, Kyle Torpey posits, "Yes! That’s the whole point!"
CULTURE

Karpeles Beats Embezzlement Charges in Mt Gox Ruling

Jimmy Aki -
The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
CULTURE

Coinbase Purchased Neutrino for $13.5 M, Acquisition Contract Shows

Aaron Van Wirdum And Colin Harper -
Crypto exchange Coinbase purchased controversial software services provider Neutrino for $13.5 million.
CULTURE

As Court Reconvenes for QuadrigaCX, Questions Surround Empty Cold Wallets

Aaron Van Wirdum And Colin Harper -
The court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
CULTURE

Reacting to Public Ire, Coinbase Drops Neutrino Execs With Hacking Team Ties

Aaron Van Wirdum And Colin Harper -
Blaming “a gap in [Coinbase’s] diligence process,” CEO Brian Armstrong writes that Coinbase “did not properly evaluate everything from the perspective of our mission and values as a crypto company.”
CULTURE

Coinbase Bought Neutrino Because Its Old Analysis Providers Sold User Data

Aaron Van Wirdum And Colin Harper -
Coinbase’s Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, said in an interview last week that, in part, the exchange acquired controversial software firm Neutrino because its prior blockchain analysis providers were selling customer data.
CULTURE

Op Ed: Defining Decentralization: How Ambiguity Continues to Divide Crypto

Paul Puey -
In the pursuit of mass adoption, decentralization shouldn’t be our goal, but instead a means to achieve the many different, and equally important, goals that exist for cryptocurrency users.
CULTURE

Stanford Student Calls Out Crypto Professor for Inaccurate Bitcoin Lecture

Michael Taiberg -
Professor Susan Athey's presentation on “Blockchain and the Future of Finance" at the University of Stanford Graduate School provoked one student to protest its “multiple misstatements” about Bitcoin and its fundamentals.
CULTURE

Grim Stories of Ethical, Privacy Abuses Emerge About Coinbase’s New Partners

Aaron Van Wirdum And Colin Harper -
Among other issues, Reporters Without Borders labeled Hacking Team (the team behind Neutrino) as one of five “Enemies of the Internet” in 2013 for its role in humanitarian abuses against journalists.
CULTURE

Cryptopia Calculates That 9.4 Percent of Assets Stolen in January Hack

Landon Manning -
The New Zealand-based crypto asset exchange Cryptopia has made their assessment of a January hack, claiming that up to 9.4 percent of all their assets were stolen.
1...199200201...299Page 200 of 299

Bitcoin alpha every weekday, sent straight to your inbox.

LATEST ARTICLES

Advertise with us

Amplify your brand with the world’s first and most trusted Bitcoin media company. Every year, millions of people with diverse interests depend on Bitcoin Magazine for the most reliable, accurate, timely and relevant content. We are trusted by the Bitcoin community to inform and enlighten with quality stories that meet our stringent editorial and journalistic standards.

GET IN TOUCHGET IN TOUCH