How Will Bitcoin React in a Financial Crisis Like 2008?
By Charles Hugh Smith If the ownership of bitcoin is as concentrated as some estimate, then the liquidity issue distills down to the actions of…
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Let’s Clear Up One Confusion About Bitcoin
By Charles Hugh Smith If bitcoin can be converted into fiat currencies at a lower transaction cost than the fiat-to-fiat conversions made by banks and…
Why Is Bitcoin a Big Deal?
By Charles Hugh Smith Centralized banking and all other forms of intermediary rentier skims are presented as solid. If history is any guide, these supposedly…
Japan Just Killed the “Bitcoin Will Be Banned” Meme
By Charles Hugh Smith One of the most durable claims of cryptocurrency skeptics is that “governments will ban bitcoin once it threatens their fiat currency…
Bankers Panic: 400 Year Old Banking Swindle Coming To a Close?
By Jack Mullen, TGR Intelligence Briefing Royal Bank of Canada CEO, David McKay, was recently on CNBC and asked to talk about the cryptocurrencies. During…
WikiLeaks, Bitcoin, and the Revolutionary Movement of Peacemakers
Op-Ed by Nozomi Hayase As Trump’s dangerous move on Iran’s nuclear deal and his provocative reaction to North Korea undercut diplomacy, tension is rising for World…
Why Governments Will Not Ban Bitcoin
By Charles Hugh Smith Those who see governments banning ownership of bitcoin are ignoring the political power and influence of those who are snapping up…
Credit Agency Equifax Threatened To Pay Up In Bitcoin Or Else
By Aaron Kesel Credit reporting agency Equifax was hacked, potentially endangering 143 million Americans’ social security numbers, birth dates, and other private information. Unless, according to…
How Economics and Voluntaryism Informed Roger Ver on Bitcoin
By Vin Armani In this video, Vin Armani interviews Roger Ver, CEO of Bitcoin.com, about how economics and libertarian philosophy informed his discovery of Bitcoin, and…
An Exclusive Look Inside The K.im Beta
By Aaron Kesel Kim Dotcom just launched a demo of his new micro payments business K.im and I got into the exclusive preview. Here’s what…
SEC Regulates “Initial Coin Offerings” Virtual Tokens Subject To Securities Laws
By Aaron Kesel The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a press release cautioning market participants that offer “Initial Coin Offerings” or “Token Sales” that…
‘The Purpose of Cryptocurrency is to Separate Money From The State’
By Vin Armani In this video, Erik Voorhees explains how he got into Bitcoin and why cryptocurrency will separate money from the State. Voorhees believes…
The Decentralize Your Life Tour: An Interview With Derrick Broze
By Jamie Redman This week Bitcoin.com chatted with Derrick Broze, an agorist activist, writer, host of the Conscious Resistance Network and organizer of the Decentralize…
Gold and Silver Are “Asymmetric” Trades
By David Smith An asymmetric trade is a situation where investing a relatively small amount of money holds the potential of yielding a profit many…