A summary of the inequality critique directed at Bitcoin, summarized from a very commented article at Ouishare, from Stanislas Jourdan : “Bitcoin faces two types of criticism. The first is technical: Bitcoin is an anonymous and authority-less currency, which is eventually of great hel...
While it is true that local communities have, in the past, generated successful communitarian currencies (that enabled them to improve welfare in their midst, especially at a time of acute economic crises), there can be no de-politicised currency capable of ‘powering’ an advanced, ind...
A status update on the advancement of the Bitcoin ecology Michel Bauwens 17th March 2013 Excerpted from Nicolas Mendoza : (the original has many interesting links) “The context in 2013 looks dramatically different to the one during the huge rally-and-crash of 2011. During the last yea...
At Paymium we spent lots of time and energy talking about Bitcoin to our regulating bodies, the Banque de France, the ACP (French equivalent of the American SEC), TRACFIN (AML French supervising body) etc. We engaged all these resources with one goal in mind : get these people to know...
Excerpted from Dmytri Kleiner (with whom I agree on this issue): “I want to write a bit about the public function of money, especially as compared to the market function of money, in light of some of the recent discussion about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is already a very useful technology due ...
Interesting libertarian argument excerpted from Jon Matonis : (editor’s note: the illusion here is that keeping Bitcoin a-legal would protect it from state intervention) ” I was a radical before most of you Bitcoin users were born. That doesn’t make me any better than you (hopefully I...
Some may not like it, but bitcoin is a Mengerian-, Misean-, Rothbardian-, Austrian-currency in its purest form. Still actively debated within the Austrian economics community. – Jon Matonis Excerpted from Phillip Pilkington : “The most popular aspect of the libertarian doctrine today ...
WIKISPEED is excited to announce that starting today, it is possible to purchase WIKISPEED cars and car parts or to support our projects with Bitcoin. We believe the decentralised, open and internet-native nature of Bitcoin resonates deeply with the essence of the WIKISPEED project. O...
