Crypto Is Part of Free Speech, and Free Speech Is Everything
By Graham Smith On July 23, U.S. Attorney General William Barr gave a speech demanding big players in the tech industry work with government agencies…
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5 of the Most Important Use Cases for Cryptocurrency
By Kai Sedgwick Crypto assets have come a long way since Bitcoin. What started out as a P2P payment system has spawned an array of…
10,000 American Cryptocurrency Owners Will Receive Warning Letters From the IRS
By Jamie Redman On July 26, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the tax agency has started sending letters to American cryptocurrency owners…
How Government Agencies Make Criminals of Crypto Traders
By Graham Smith A New Jersey man has been indicted this week for converting over $2 million to bitcoin and operating a private exchange business…
Venezuelan Government Accused of Using Bitcoin to Bypass US Sanctions
By Jamie Redman Nicolás Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela have been accused of circumventing financial blockades imposed by the U.S. government. According…
US, EU and Japan Could Trigger “Cold Currency War” by Debasing Fiat
By Avi Mizrahi The world’s major central banks are waging war to determine who can make their respective fiat currency weaker. With the likelihood of…
Sorry, I Don’t Want to Pay for More Bombs: Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Funding War
By Graham Smith After nearly two decades of U.S.-led coalition bombs falling on the Middle East, peace in the region still has not been achieved….
Privacy Is a Human Right Worth Fighting For
By Kai Sedgwick Privacy is a basic human right. It’s there in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Freedom from Interference with…
The Myth of Authority: Mnuchin Denies USD Is Used Criminally
By Graham Smith U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has once again weighed in on Bitcoin, claiming the U.S. dollar has not been used to finance…
Crypto Bullishness Spreads on Capitol Hill
By Kevin Helms U.S. Congress has shown that it is starting to care about cryptocurrency as a number of lawmakers spoke up in favor of…
Money Laundering Fines Worth Billions Help Bankers Avoid Prosecution and Unpleasant Labels
By Lubomir Tassev The recent seizure of a cargo ship owned by JP Morgan, a vessel loaded with 20 tons of cocaine according to latest…
Monetary Metals Don’t Need a “Gold Standard” Proxy System
By Stefan Gleason President Trump moved recently to nominate an avowed sound money advocate, Judy Shelton, to the Federal Reserve Board. That triggered a flurry…
The Dollar, Not Crypto, Is a National Security Issue
By Peter C. Earle U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin piled on to comments made recently by President Donald Trump by calling cryptocurrencies a “national security…
California Committee Approves Measure to Create Banking Alternative for Cannabis Industry, Bypass Federal Reserve
By Michael Maharrey Last week, a second California Assembly committee unanimously passed a bill that would establish limited state-chartered banks to serve the cannabis industry. Final…