Thanks to the couple of sources who sent these in:
- A Challenge to the Bitcoin Community by George Selgin (he wants to see if someone can engineer bitcoin ahead of time to be “flexible” — which is arbitrary — to be inflated or deflated when necessary to purportedly “better” manage the economy; or in other words wealth =/= money)
- Bitcoin: Overview An introduction to the mechanics of bitcoins and an overview of how transactions take place from Khan Academy
- My Official Withdrawal from the BitcoinATM Project by Jeff Berwick (no lawsuit?)
- Bitcoin’s hyperdeflationary recession? by John Paul Koning
- Infamous marketplace Silk Road brought down by DDoS attack from Wired
- IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin from Forbes (wonder how many filed 1099’s last month…)
- Massive Bitcoin Business Partnership Devolves Into $75 Million Lawsuit from Gawker
- Collected Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Founder Of Underground Drug Site Silk Road And Radical Libertarian from Forbes (hardcore Rothbardian ancap, who will play him in the movie?)
- Drugs, porn, and counterfeits: the market for illegal goods is booming online from The Verge (for the record, i am not endorsing any specific cryptocurrency, darknet or trafficking illicit wares)
- How porn links and Ben Bernanke snuck into Bitcoin’s code from CNN (wonder when they’ll track down the perps or if it was AGITPROP)
- Let’s Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur’s Take from Wired