There have been some new twists in the strange case of an alleged attempt to blackmail Mitt Romney for $1 million in bitcoins, raising additional legal questions about the digital currency. Two months ago I explained how an anonymous ransom letter threatening the release of then-presi...
Many people complain about government control of currency, but only a few do something about it. I’m not talking about movements to “audit the Fed” and such. I’m talking about real innovation that makes an end run around the government’s iron grip on the monetary system. A few of us o...
Anthropologists gradually fanned out into the world and began directly observing how economies where money was not used (or anyway, not used for everyday transactions) actually worked. What they discovered was an at first bewildering variety of arrangements, ranging from competitive g...
Bitcoin Friday was great for us! We kicked it off by driving down to Philly to host a Bitcoin table at the biggest regional conference for libertarian students in history. The students loved it, and ran the gamut from Bitcoin experts to many who had never heard the word before. Invari...
Le rapport (en anglais) publié par la BCE la semaine dernière (fin octobre) reconnaît l’existence de systèmes monétaires alternatifs en soulignant la menace qu’ils représenteraient pour cette institution, tout en omettant d’évoquer aucun de leurs avantages pour les citoyens et l’écono...
Speaking to its usefulness, Bitcoin is increasingly being adopted as a payment method for online commerce because it carries several advantages over traditional payment methods such as credit cards, bank wires, or PayPal. Unlike traditional payment methods, Bitcoin transfers carry no ...
In an anonymous letter addressed to PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) , an individual or group of individuals claims to have obtained presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s unreleased tax returns from a PWC office in Tennessee. The letter claims that these documents have been sent in encrypt...
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Just started using bitcoins today and since i needed them rather urgently I hastily bought them and transferred them to my wallet before actually setting up my wallet.The client is downloading the block chain but its taking painfully long...3 hours and counting.i was just wondering if...
Matthew Elias - Bitcoin Blackmail Plot Thickens Matthew Elias, Director and Founder of the Cryptocurrency Legal Advocacy Group (CLAG), writes on the latest developments in the Romney Tax Return Blackmailing. He describes ways in which Bitcoin poses a challenge further in way that have...
News me 5 Back Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin as Payment for Subscriptions | Betabeat Posted by rocko 17 hours ago (http://betabeat.com ) With 3.8 billion pageviews in October alone, Reddit is still far from profitable, so it’s betting on a subscription model to keep the site fr...
This would be the famous speech in which the guy assured everyone who’d listen that GLBSE can’t possibly have any problems two week before closing it “for problems” and also demonstrated he doesn’t know what “arbitrage” means. Ladies and gents, I give you the new Boxxy . [↩ ] This is ...
The European Central Bank Is Worried: “Roots of Bitcoin Can Be Found In the Austrian School of Economics” – AgainstCronyCapitalism.org
