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Bitcoin is a revolution. Well, that’s what they say, anyway. Who are they? The believers. The denizens of online chat rooms and boards who belong to ideologies that most people will never encounter in the real world. The most popular strain that runs through bitcoin...

Turn back the clocks to 2009. A small portion of the internet was abuzz with a new tool for avoiding the eyes of the government, any government. The long and meaningful legacy of cypherpunks, privacy wonks who have consistently done battle with anyone who wishes to control or...

It’s a storyline that participants in the cryptocurrency ecosystem have encountered too many times: Bitcoin stolen from users. This time the target was Bitfinex, an exchange among the oldest in the bitcoin ecosystem, an achievement given the number of flops and hacks. The story...

It’s that time again. Time to spin the wheel of predictions and see where the needle lands. Will the price increase? Will the price decrease? What about the fundamentals? Will China buy more bitcoins because of capital controls? All of these questions and more will be answered...

What is 21 Inc doing? A favorite among bitcoin believers, the fledgling firm is long on talk about plans and disruption, but short on tangible results. After the flop launch of its headline miner, 21 Inc has introduced a series of APIs on its marketplace, accepting fractional...

Picture this. You’ve invested a substantial amount of your net worth in a single commodity. You can’t hold it, touch it, or predict the price. It isn’t well understood and the market is extremely opaque; at this point no one even knows who is in the market. Most alarmingly, the...

The recent meeting of bitcoin power players in Hong Kong was intensely followed by bitcoin believers, with the crowd anticipating hearing the future roadmap for the digital currency. The past 12 months have witnessed dramatic twists in the bitcoin world: developers leaving the...

The past year was a whirlwind for bitcoin and the bitcoin ecosystem. Scams and hacks, government regulation, new launches and new investors, and a price that started in the basement but ended relatively positively. The year ahead promises to be a year of potential; will bitcoin...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve likely heard of 21 Inc., one of the biggest stars in the bitcoin ecosystem. The recent launch of their flagship hardware product, which acts as a miner when used in conjunction with any networked computer, was supposed to...

Last week I wrote about the community that surrounds Bitcoin, and how I think they are negatively impacting the future of the cryptocurrency. I took quotes specifically from /r/Bitcoin, and I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of replies and the mostly quality discussion...