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...
You can buy many different goods and services with Bitcoin, exchange it with other currencies, etc… It works on a global scale. Hence, it is symbolic of the shift of our world system to a ‘post-Westphalian’ phase, a phase that goes not only beyond the dominance of the nation-states, b...
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...
Namecoin is Bitcoin’s little brother. It’s a decentralized peer to peer currency and name database system. It basically allows you to register .bit domain names Here is an explanation : “Namecoin gets its name from its parent project, BitCoin. In fact, much of the code that is used wi...
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 ...
The second annual Bitcoin Conference , and the largest Bitcoin international event yet, is set to begin tomorrow Friday September 14. If you are located in London and wish to pop in, you can get tickets at the door for 80 GBP. Starting Friday and continuing until Sunday, speakers and ...
Bitcoin’s importance can’t be exaggerated. Encrypted currency has been at the Altair stage of development. If Bitcoin isn’t actually the Apple II – and it may not be – we’re very close to it. If Bitcoin isn’t the Messiah of the darknet economy, at the very least it’s John the Baptist ...
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...
