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Imagine you want to build a new house. Your old one is behind the times, and you yearn for the new gadgets, features, and technology. You find a guy on the internet who says he’ll build you a brand new house, part of a new trend in houses. It will have all the bells and whistles,...

In 1964, the FBI sent a letter to Martin Luther King Jr. The letter was a culmination of a five-year illegal surveillance program centering on King personally, due to suspicions that he was a communist, and the personal hatred of then-president J. Edgar Hoover. The letter,...

Note: this article deals with adult topics, and some links are Not Safe For Work. Bitcoin has the potential to dramatically change many industries: remittances, gambling, even the stock market. One area that doesn’t immediately comes to mind is the adult film industry: it...

The US has been in a rush to finally bring mobile payments into the mainstream – and, as usual, it’s a colossal mess. Apple kicked things off with Apple Pay, which is almost exactly the same product as Google Wallet, but somehow far more successful. Apple almost...

In a speech a few nights ago at Cardozo law school, Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the NYDFS and official most directly responsible for the proposed “BitLicense” regulation that we’ve written about previously, did his best to dispel concerns about the upcoming regulations....

Most proponents of Bitcoin are at least a little libertarian-ish, and it’s not hard to see why. Bitcoin is hard to use, profoundly volatile, and not as widely accepted as cash or credit cards. Many of these things will get better in the future, but that doesn’t change the...

In late August, British Columbia-based Simon Fraser University (SFU) announced it had become the first Canadian higher-education institution to accept donations in Bitcoin. SFU’s first Bitcoin donors were alumnus Scott Nelson, who is the chief technology officer of crowdfunding...

It’s easy to write Dogecoin off as a joke, largely because (in a lot of ways) it is. Dogecoin is a weird little altcoin without much to recommend it technically that has somehow found itself a lasting position in the top ten cryptocurrencies, long after the meme behind it has...

As the price of Bitcoin continues to fall (which still isn’t the point, by the way), some may find themselves wondering – where will it bottom out? Is there a point at which the fall will stop itself? As it happens, this is an interesting case study of the value of a...

The Silk Road was, for the duration of its existence, something of a poster child for the cryptanarchist movement. The service provided a way for users to move goods and money amongst themselves without the possibility of violence or the intervention of law enforcement. Its role...