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Getting Stuff For Free Costs A Fortune

While many people cheered their stimulus checks, those same people are unaware of the long-term price they’re paying for endlessly increasing monetary units.

Determining Electrical Cost of Bitcoin Mining

This was written in response to a piece written by Tim Fernholz about miners spending $17 million a day for a shot at $4.4 million of...

Op-Ed: Bitcoin’s Journey to Digital Reserve Currency Status

Seven years on, bitcoin still remains the largest digital currency by market capitalization. While bitcoin may have been the most volatile currency, it has...

Swiss City to Pilot Bitcoin Payments for Public Services

In an international first, the Swiss town of Zug in central Switzerland will begin accepting Bitcoin payments for government services on a trial basis,...

Bitcoin Lightning Network Creators: Fees Will Be Effectively Zero

Roughly two months ago, Lightning Network creators Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja visited the Coinbase offices to explain how their design works and answer...

Korea’s Kookmin Bank Partners With Coinplug to Develop a Blockchain Forex Application

Kookmin Bank, one of South Korea’s largest commercial banks and one of the four largest financial institutions in the country by asset value, has...

‘Bitcoin Always Needed More Than One Body of Developers’: An Interview With Libbitcoin’s Eric Voskuil

Launched in 2011 by an ensemble of dedicated open-source developers led by Bitcoin’s rebellious hacker Amir Taaki, Libbitcoin was born a tool of resistance. Offering an alternative...

IMF: Virtual Currencies and Their Underlying Technologies Can Provide Faster and Cheaper Financial Services

On January 20, 2016 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, during the panel on Transformation of Finance, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released...

TransferWise on Bitcoin and the Battle for International Money Transfers

Everyone from Nick Szabo, who developed the concept of smart contracts, to Blockchain Capital Managing Partner Brock Pierce has been touting Bitcoin’s value as...

BitFury Looks to Go Green With 3M’s Novec 7100 Engineered Fluid

In an attempt to further decrease energy costs and its impact on the environment, BitFury announced that it was launching the world’s largest two-phase...
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