5 Essential Privacy Tools For The Next Crypto War
The first crypto war revolved around the hardware-based Clipper Chip and coercing companies to deploy broken encryption with backdoors to enable domestic State spying. Fortunately, the good guys won....
View ArticleCryptocat Increases Security In Move Away From JavaScript Web Delivery
Announced over the weekend, encrypted chat service Cryptocat will soon be accessible only by downloading a local browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Beta release date for version 2...
View ArticleTop 10 Bitcoin Statistics
The concept of a decentralized cryptocurrency without political borders can be challenging at first. Bitcoin forces us to adjust the way that we think about money and value transfer. Fortunately, the...
View ArticleParallel Currencies And The Roadmap To Monetary Freedom
It may not be as historically significant as President Nixon closing the gold window in 1971, but Rep. Ron Paul laid out the framework for the inevitable monetary confrontation of the future in his...
View ArticleMy Answer To A VC’s Bitcoin Question
Fred Wilson (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist and principal of Union Square Ventures. On his popular blog, he recently solicited feedback (for the second time) on the...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Bypasses Financial Blockade With Bitcoin
People shouldn’t fear their government; government should fear its people. Publishers and journalists will not be intimidated nor silenced. Now entering day 626 of the financial blockade against...
View ArticleEconomist Appearing On Max Keiser Show Forced To Resign
Ludwig von Mises in his library (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s been confirmed now that economist Sandeep Jaitly has been forced to resign his position from The Gold Standard Institute following his...
View ArticleBitZino And The Dawn Of ‘Provably Fair’ Casino Gaming
Have you ever wondered how easy it would be for online casino operators to cheat? After all, they’re magically shuffling cards online and you can’t even see the complete deck. Formally launching on...
View ArticleArgentina Begins Tracking All Credit Cards
In an eerie glimpse of what a cashless society enables, the government of Argentina has taken the drastic step of mandating banks to report every credit card purchase to the tax authorities, AFIP. Also...
View ArticleBlackmail And A Briefcase Of Bitcoin
The anti-cashists are right about one thing. A briefcase full of paper cash is a dirty, inefficient way to move money around. Upon hearing the news that a hacker had seized presidential nominee Mitt...
View ArticleKey Disclosure Laws Can Be Used To Confiscate Bitcoin Assets
Jail time for refusing to comply with mandatory key disclosure hasn’t occurred in the United States yet. But, it’s already happening in jurisdictions such as the UK, where a 33-year-old man was...
View ArticleBitcoin Foundation Launches To Drive Bitcoin’s Advancement
Several months in the making, the Bitcoin Foundation launches this week to accelerate the global growth of bitcoin through standardization, protection, and promotion of the open source protocol. As a...
View ArticleCredit Card Processors Discriminate Against Medical Marijuana
Medical Marijuana shop in Denver, Colorado The medical marijuana industry is under siege. Legal in 17 States and the District of Columbia, the marijuana dispensaries are not recognized as legal...
View ArticleBitcoin Prevents Monetary Tyranny
Mel Gibson as William Wallace wearing woad. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Bitcoin is not about making rapid global transactions with little or no fee. Bitcoin is about preventing monetary tyranny. That is...
View ArticleAs Inflation Rages In Iran, Bitcoin Software Not Available
Hyperinflation has hit Iran hard. The government has stepped up censorship of currency exchange websites such as Mesghal.com and Mazanex.com, which had rates blanked out for the rial’s value against...
View ArticlePayoneer Quietly Enters Gibraltar Prepaid Market
Gibraltar sits at the southernmost end of Spain and is only 8 miles north of Morocco. (Photo: Wikipedia) Payoneer, a New York-based global payments and money transfer company, has quietly launched an...
View ArticleLarge Cash Transactions Banned In Mexico
$207 million from largest cash seizure in Mexico. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon has signed into law a ban on large cash transactions. The ban will take effect in...
View ArticleGeneric Viagra Industry Is Pro-Choice In Payments
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) “Right now most affiliate programs have a mass of declines, cancels and pendings, and it doesn’t depend much on the program IMHO, there is a general sad picture, fucking Visa...
View ArticleECB: “Roots Of Bitcoin Can Be Found In The Austrian School Of Economics”
The ECB (European Central Bank) has produced the first official central bank study of the decentralized cryptographic money known as bitcoin, Virtual Currency Schemes. Ignoring for a moment the ECB’s...
View ArticleDepartment Of Homeland Security To Scan Payment Cards At Borders And Airports
Typical wireless electronic card reader (Photo credit: USDA) Travelers leaving or entering the United States have long had to declare aggregated cash and other monetary instruments exceeding $10,000....
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