Busking for Bitcoin: Report Finds Street Performers Depend on Digital Payments

Street performers, or buskers, are leaning more toward digital platforms these days compared to the old method of accepting loose change. A report recently published by economists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia has found that in certain areas, buskers get more donations via digital payment methods like Paypal and bitcoin from people passing by, […]

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Cornell Economist Says Bitcoin Has 3 Flaws Driving People to Search for Better Alternatives

Cornell University professor of economics and former head of the IMF’s China division, Eswar Prasad, sees three major flaws in bitcoin. Because of these flaws, the professor says that “bitcoin really has set off something of a search for a better alternative.” Cornell University’s Professor of Economics Outlines Bitcoin’s Flaws Cornell economics professor Eswar Prasad […]

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