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I have made no secret of my fascination with the people who inhabit places like bitcointalk.org and /r/bitcoin. These two places dominate discussion regarding bitcoin, and aside from the obvious similarity that they are ruled, sorry, moderated by Theymos, the other noticeable...

The programming community has long been an independent and even grumpy group of individuals. Programmers have resisted any movement toward unionizing, something that commenters cite as a result of the “staunch individualism” found therein. The same professionals launched...

A hallmark feature of Bitcoin and the blockchain it relies on has been the notion of decentralization. Praised by users and believers as the answer to the evils of Big Government, Wall Street and a host of other perceived societal ills, decentralization has been touted as the way...

The Bitcoin ecosystem relies on exchanges to be the “on and off ramps” by which money flows in and out of the system. Currently, there are two types of Bitcoin exchanges: Centralized and Decentralized. Centralized exchanges take in fiat money (USD, EUR, etc) and Bitcoin from...