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Five Reasons Why Bitcoin Cash is About to Win Big

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Cryptocurrency markets have started to rebound in value as the spring begins in 2018, but one particular cryptocurrency — bitcoin cash — has been on a relentless upswing as the network approaches another hard fork this May. This year traders and bitcoin cash (BCH) proponents believe the decentralized digital currency and the BCH network has … Read more

Wendy McElroy: Here, There Is No State

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The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 3: Decentralization Chapter 7, Part 2. Here, there is no State. The core innovation of cryptocurrency is decentralization—the diffusion of functions or power across a broad network. The decentralization of crypto is what yanked financial control away from concentrated authorities, like central banks, and into the … Read more

Wendy McElroy on Decentralization: “Give Power Back to the Individual”

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The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations. Section 2 : The Moral Imperative of Privacy Chapter 7: Decentralization Decentralization (Chapter 7, Part 1) A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990’s. I hope it’s obvious it was only the centrally controlled … Read more

Privacy-Centric Coin XMR Splits Into Four Different Monero Protocols

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On April 6 the privacy-centric cryptocurrency monero (XMR) forked the protocol in order to make the digital asset’s mining ecosystem egalitarian. However, the hard fork has led to the birth of four monero-based blockchain branches all claiming to be the “original monero.” Also read: Bitcoin’s Value to Lose $44 Billion by Year’s End, Researchers Argue The … Read more

Wendy McElroy: Do Not Passively Nationalize Your Privacy

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The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 2: The Moral Imperative of Privacy Chapter 6: Privacy is a Prerequisite for Human Rights Do Not Passively Nationalize Your Privacy. Chapter 6, Part 7 “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would … Read more

Bitcoin in Brief Friday: Satoshi’s Birthday and Tezos Turmoil

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Welcome to the Friday edition of Bitcoin in Brief. The fourth instalment of this new feature from news.Bitcoin.com is the most eclectic yet, encompassing everything from Satoshi Nakamoto’s faux birthday to juicy snippets from the Tezos lawsuit. According to court documents, the project’s co-founder, Kathleen Breitman is a “one woman band”. Also read: Bitcoin in Brief … Read more

Our Love and Hate Relationship with Bitcoin Miners

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It’s coming close to a decade since the creation of the bitcoin network and the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The protocol has produced a great deal of users, infrastructure, businesses and influential parties like developers and miners. Since the beginning of bitcoin’s mining history, individuals mined lots of coins with central processing units (aka home computers). Later, … Read more

MerkleCast: Does Satoshi Nakamoto’s Identity Matter?

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How important is knowing Satoshi Nakamoto’s true identity? Is mining centralization a fatal flaw for cryptocurrencies? Who are the blockchain industry’s supporters in the U.S. government? And is there any hope left for net neutrality? Relive last Thursday’s MerkleCast with me and Dariusz Jakubowski for insight on these and other topics, and don’t forget to leave your comments and questions in advance of our next … Read more

Wendy McElroy: How Centralized Exchanges Intend to Devastate You

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The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 2: The Moral Imperative of Privacy Chapter 6: Privacy is a Prerequisite for Human Rights How Centralized Exchanges Intend to Devastate You. Chapter 6, Part 6. The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work…We have to trust them … Read more