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

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

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

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

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

Periodically, there will be a rash of news stories claiming that  Bitcoin  has become popular in some country suffering economic…

Bitcoin offered “equality” in that anyone could mine it. But in practice, Bitcoin was substantially mined early on – early…

There are over two billion people in the world who have no bank account or access to even basic financial…

Bitcoin is put forward as the obvious replacement for Western Union for people working in rich countries to send money…