What is Bitcoin-Bitcoin Explained Simply for Dummies

Bitcoin is the first decentralized digital currency. All Bitcoin transactions are documented on a virtual ledger called the blockchain, which…

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The rise and fall of Mt. Gox

 I’m Roger Ver, long time Bitcoin advocate and investor. Today I’m at the Mt. Gox world headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.…

Bitcoin exchanges: keep your money in a sock under someone else’s bed

 “Be your own bank” is actually very hard – particularly with “no chargebacks”, meaning that in the event of a…

Pirateat40: Bitcoin Savings & Trust

Now that Pirateat40 closed down his operatations thanks to all the fud that was going on and growing on the…

The art of the steal

  As a financial instrument born without regulation, Bitcoin quickly turned into an iterative exploration of precisely why each financial…

Early Bitcoin: the rise to the first bubble

Asset bubbles follow a standard progression: Stealth phase: The price of an asset is going Awareness phase: Some investors become…

When the economy collapses, Bitcoin will save you!

No, really: there are Bitcoin advocates who seriously look forward to economic collapse as an opportunity for Bitcoin – continued…