September 04, 2015
Bitcoin Goes Hollywood And Barclays’ Bitcoin Bet
"Shutter Island," meet Silk Road. Dennis Lehane has agreed to write the script for the movie based on the run up to the infamous Silk Road bust. And, catch what...
August 28, 2015
Bitcoin Goes Cuban And ‘Black Monday’ Bites Back
La bienvenida a Cuba, Bitcoin! Una transacción bitcoin ha ocurrido. Directly translated, this means: Welcome to Cuba, bitcoin! A bitcoin transaction has occurred. While this historic move isn’t quite as...
August 21, 2015
Bitcoin Gets Forked While Programmer Lives On Bitcoin For 365...
Imagine this scenario. Forget Apple Pay (many already do, it seems). Forgot debit and credit cards. In fact, cut them up. Now, go take all the money you need to...
August 14, 2015
Bitcoin’s ‘Criminal Contracts’ And The Batman Effect
Bitcoin has inspired yet another technology that has some in the investor world worried that it will be used for the one thing bitcoin is commonly associated with: criminal activity....
August 07, 2015
Bitcoin On Wall Street?
Bitcoin hasn’t exactly been Overstock’s best friend – Overstock announced in June that it lost $117k in its investments in the digital currency so far – but Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne...
July 31, 2015
Iron Mike, Taylor Swift, President Obama … And Bitcoin?
What do Mike Tyson, the world’s hottest pop singer and the President have in common? They all starred in this week’s bizarre week of bitcoin news. But that’s not all!...
July 24, 2015
Underground Bitcoin Exchange Busted And The ‘Ebola’ of Banking
It seems like every time bitcoin takes a step forward in shaking off its somewhat nefarious roots, someone pops up to ruin it. In this case, there’s actually two someones. ...
July 17, 2015
The Bitcoin Link Between Greece And Latin America
What do Greece and Latin America have in common? They keep showing up in headlines about bitcoin. In fact, an International Business Times article yesterday titled “What Greece can learn from bitcoin adoption in Latin...
July 10, 2015
Bitcoin – “It’s Like Punk Rock”
Up until recently, if you typed “Greece” and “bitcoin” into Google, you would not get much in return. It’s amazing what a Greek debt crisis will do for search results....