Bitcoin Goes to Washington: Bitcoin and Money Laundering: 2014 Commerce,...
Bitcoin Goes to Washington Bitcoin and Money Laundering: 2014 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill: Federal Bureau of Investigation By Brian Cohen and Adam B. Levine On...
View ArticleBitcoin Foundation Leadership to Meet with Regulators in Washington
Today, representatives from the Bitcoin Foundation are scheduled to meet with members of at least seven executive agencies in Washington. Regulators are attempting to understand where to begin with a...
View ArticleRegulators Taking a Hiatus to Learn a Bit More About Bitcoin
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, representatives from the Bitcoin Foundation met successfully met with regulators and Capitol Hill Staff. Without a clear foreshadowing of how successful the series...
View ArticleSilk Road Shut Down, Alleged Owner Arrested
The Silk Road, the largest black market site on the Tor network, has been shut down by the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, and its alleged owner, Ross William Ulbrecht, arrested in San...
View ArticleA Brief Discussion on the Mechanism Design of Bitcoin
By: Chang Jia (8btc.com) Translated by: James Choi (8btc.com) Edited By: Elizabeth T. Ploshay (Bitcoin Magazine) The fierce “arms race” of the Bitcoin network has triggered concern over network...
View ArticleThe Economic Singularity: From Holland with Love
Richard Kohl is a founding member of PikaPay.com, a mobile wallet that lets you send bitcoins to anyone on Twitter. He is also a board member of the Dutch Bitcoin Foundation. From Holland with Love The...
View ArticleA Propoganda War
Disclaimer: Vitalik Buterin and Mihai Alisie have some involvement in the Dark Wallet project Once in a while a really big idea comes along: an idea that completely changes our concept of society. In...
View ArticleObama Initiative Spawns Identity Based Bitcoin Greenlist
The IDESG or Identity Ecosystem Steering Group recently filed paperwork with the Commonwealth of Virginia to incorporate the IDESG as a nonprofit corporation. The IDESG was basically spun out of NIST...
View ArticleUS Senate Meets Bitcoin Day 1
With a tremendous build-up heading into yesterday’s hearing, the price of BTC peaked at over 600 USD. At the start of today’s hearing beginning with Senator Tom Carper’s (D-DE) opening statement, the...
View ArticleUS Senate Meets Bitcoin Day 2
Today, the Bitcoin community entered into the halls of the US Senate once again, this time for a US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on National Security and...
View ArticleTulip Mania Vs. Bitcoin
Written by: BigChubbyCat (8BTC) Translated by: James Choi (8BTC) Edited by: Elizabeth T. Ploshay (Bitcoin Magazine) 1. Tulip In 1635, the price of a certain kind of tulip reached 1615 Florins. At the...
View ArticleCurrency Competition and Hoarding
Written By: BigChubbyCat (8BTC) Translated By: James Choi (8BTC) Edited By: Elizabeth T. Ploshay (Bitcoin Magazine) I. The difference among physical carriers Before discussing currency competition, we...
View ArticleChina Releases First Regulatory Report on Bitcoin Businesses
After months of regulatory uncertainty in the Chinese Bitcoin community, the People’s Bank of China has announced their first major report regarding the legal and regulatory status of Bitcoin. The...
View ArticleBitcoin: China’s New Special Economic Zone
After the recent regulatory announcement on the part of the People’s Bank of China, the Bitcoin markets and many in the Chinese Bitcoin community have been in a state of panic. Although the day after...
View ArticleBitcoin Launders Your Dirty Money
…but it doesn’t come out very clean In recent months, the public perception of Bitcoin has developed from little-known tech curiosity into one of the most exciting stories of the year. While Bitcoin...
View ArticleBitcoin Alliance of Canada Files Opposition to Attempt to Trademark Bitcoin
The Bitcoin Alliance of Canada has made a filing with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office opposing an attempt to trademark the word “Bitcoin” in the country. The trademark attempt, filed by Neil...
View ArticleUtopians and Magical Thinkers – A Response to Alex Payne via Karoli
In her recent post on Crooks and Liars, Karoli, whose pieces I’ve been reading for some time and generally find well done and intelligent, unfortunately chose to pick up on and excerpt some foolishness...
View ArticleKrugman – Barbarism and Baloney
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist who likes to explain things to we mortals via the New York Times, is a man some people love to hate, right along with the Times. But we’re not about...
View ArticleFinCEN Issues Money Service Business Clarification
On December 27th, CoinText.com reported that FinCEN has issued a clarification to the money service business rules for Bitcoin miners. Individuals and companies who mine Bitcoins for their own accounts...
View ArticleBitcoin Tax Accountant FAQ
Even after a solid year of growth and six months of near constant exposure in the mainstream media, Bitcoin remains a niche area, mostly followed by hard-core techies. Many practitioners won’t go near...
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