“GIVE me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” So said Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. What would he make of Bitcoin, an online currency with no issuing authority whatsoever? Despite being written off following a s...
Several months in the making, the Bitcoin Foundation launches this week to accelerate the global growth of bitcoin through standardization, protection, and promotion of the open source protocol. As a nonprofit corporation and neutral forum for collaboration, the Bitcoin Foundation fol...
"Bitcoin exchanges generally don't seem to recover that easily after security breaches. However, BitFloor, which was hacked and had 24,000 Bitcoins stolen in early September , is coming back online, refunding account holders whose coins were stolen and implementing new security measur...
Bitfloor, a fast-growing Bitcoin exchange that was felled by a security breach earlier this month, has resumed operations. Founder Roman Shtylman announced the site's revival on Google Plus. The exchange lost Bitcoins valued at about $250,000 in the heist. As a result, Bitfloor was in...
Of course, the Linux Foundation is about promoting an operating system that has been largely marginalized, whereas the Bitcoin Foundation will work to promote a cryptocurrency sometimes used for blackmarket activity. Bitcoin has seen its own share of PR nightmares in recent months, fr...
Gavin Andresen, lead developer for the Bitcoin open source distributed currency, has announced the formation of the Bitcoin Foundation . The group says it is "modelled on the Linux Foundation," with a goal of the non-profit entity being to encourage "the use of the core technology for...
A digital pirate has captured Bitcoin investors' money A suspected Ponzi scheme involving the online currency Bitcoin has unravelled , and I can reveal that it has drawn the attention of the American Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). Bitcoin is a libertarian's dream – and a govern...
While the decentralized and anonymous nature of Bitcoin makes the currency attractive for thieves, the hack was a result of unrelated weak security, something Shtylman now says he's fixed. Many Bitcoin users expressed support online for getting the service back online, and Shtylman re...
One Response to Bitcoin 2012 London: Max Keiser Tom-Tom | September 27, 2012 at 3:51 am | A room of people versus the OLIGARCHICAL BILLIONAIRE-JUGGERNAUT that owns the banks the governments the armies navies and the drones. But I AM hopeful. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email addre...
I think they’re missing a couple of somethings in their list of challenges. First, explaining what problem BitCoin really solves. Second, explaining how they’re a real currency and what controls and protections they have as a real currency. My understanding is they want this to be a t...
Bitfloor, a fast-growing Bitcoin exchange that was felled by a security breach earlier this month, has resumed operations. Founder Roman Shtylman announced the site's revival on Google Plus. The exchange lost Bitcoins valued at about $250,000 in the heist. As a result, Bitfloor was in...
Bitcoins: "Wofür braucht man eigentlich eine Notenbank?” Die Internet-Währung "Bitcoin” wird nicht von einer Zentralbank überwacht, sondern von ihren Nutzern. Sie ist der Gegenentwurf zum Euro. Ein Gespräch über Parallelgeld mit dem Experten Gerhard Rösl. Quelle: Morgenpost Online - W...
