How much energy is used to secure a $1 million bitcoin?
I have a new article over at Bitcoin Magazine called, Bitcoin: Made in China. It’s based off a paper (pdf) […]
I have a new article over at Bitcoin Magazine called, Bitcoin: Made in China. It’s based off a paper (pdf) […]
On March 27, 2014 I gave a presentation at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto. I covered a
Someone should call Kenny Loggins, the Chinese exchanges are flying pretty close to the danger zone. See Update 2 &
Zavain Dar is an investor with Innovation Endeavors and adjunct lecturer at Stanford teaching a Symbolic Systems course which covers
Got an email over the weekend from someone that watched my presentation (video). He was asking me about the specific
The original white paper mentions “peer-to-peer electronic cash system” as part of its title and further details this idea in
While I am not endorsing bitcoin as an investment (I don’t actually), a vocal minority of English-speaking Bitcoin adopters on
Last night I gave a presentation covering the new sidechains “blockchain 2.0” project from Austin Hill and Adam Back. I
A rail cargo line has been “relaunched” between Europe and China that is one month faster than traveling by sea
Apropos the previous post about ArtForz’s GPU farm, I exchanged some emails with Stephen Gornick who apparently tweeted about this
[Update: according to Nathaniel Popper’s book, Digital Gold (as well as in The Age of Cryptocurrency), Laszlo Hanycez is the
Even though m-of-n transactions has been supported since the acceptance of BIP 11 in 2011 and BIP 16 the following
James D’Angelo has an excellent series of tutorials on the inner workings of blockchains and cryptoledgers. One of my favorites
Below are some paraphrased notes from the new “blockchain 2.0” interview conducted by Adam B. Levine (editor-in-chief of Let’s Talk
Some very exciting news is being made public. Adam Levine, editor-in-chief of Let’s Talk Bitcoin (LTB), interviewed Adam Back and
Received a few emails the last few days. Here is one response I sent this morning to some friends: This
Gideon Greenspan recently posted on the Colored Coins dev list: We developed this to help with debugging. but it might
I have been pretty busy this past week on China-related activities, but below are some interesting stories, projects and companies
Earlier this week, version 0.0.5 of Chromawallet was released (here’s is Alex’s official announcement) and users have begun testing the
Yesterday a report from Goldman Sachs was released that identified at least 3 segments in which a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin
Wence Casares (who I interviewed for Chapter 2 in GCON) announced today that his team has officially launched Xapo, a
Several links of interest from over the past few days: Estimating the amount of Bitcoin users in 2013 from reddit
Judge Richard Posner does not care for footnotes (pdf). On the other hand, I use them copiously because they allow
A few links over the last couple of days: Empowered Law, a law firms that provides services regarding: Smart Contracts
While it may be controversial to suggest in some circles, but cryptoledgers are agnostic tools. And due to their open-source