Closing tabs.
If you’re interested in a blast from the past — to see just how fast the cryptocurrency space has moved in the past 16 months, look at the list of Panelists and Speakers from the San Jose 2013 conference and the projects they were working on. Or is the more appropriate word, “pivoting?”
Below are links of interest and are not an endorsement for services:
- KnCMiner Launches Cloud Mining Service at Arctic Bitcoin Mine from CoinDesk (located in northern Sweden)
- What Does Money Velocity Tell Us about Low Inflation in the U.S.? from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Apple Teaming Up With Visa, MasterCard on IPhone Wallet from Bloomberg
- How many people actually use bitcoin in Canberra? from Canberra Times (i would hazard to guess if the merchants were receiving huge volumes of btc transactions they would probably publicize it)
- Brian Cartmell et al. VS Bitcoinica (last month was the 2 year anniversary of the world’s first Bitcoin lawsuit; some plaintiffs and defendants are active today on other BTC-related projects)
- Untraceable Digital Cash, Information Markets, and BlackNet from Tim May (presentation from 17 years ago)
- Anonymous remailer (it would be curious to know how many sock puppets on /r/bitcoin are managed by certain special interest groups because their “script” and talking points are similar to one another at times)
- Bitcoin, Mt. Gox & The Question of Trust by Ryan Straus (good op-ed from back in February, still relevant today)
- Coin Academy Launches Online Classes for Budding Bitcoiners from CoinDesk (another education collection)
- Bitcoin hosting center to open in Michigan from PRNewswire (I contacted them and they said it is not located in Detroit but in a city located in the southern part of Michigan, wonder why?)
- Cobra effect (law of unintended consequences)
- Peatio (an open-source crypto currency exchange)
- Total Factor Productivity as a Measure of Welfare by Robert Solow (see also Productivity or Employment: Is It a Choice? an IMF working paper)
- ATMIA publishes global position paper on BitCoin ATMs (from the ATM Industry Association)
- How to Break the 10 min Bitcoin Confirmation Barrier by Catheryne Nicholson
- Multicurrency payment system by Joey Fiscella with Florincoin