Bitcoin stands to streamline the world’s unlawful trade. This is one of its four key drivers, providing an almost-perfect anonymity, untraceability and laundrability —…
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Falkvinge On The Keiser Report This Week
In this week’s episode of The Keiser Report on Russia Today, Keiser and team had invited me to discuss issues with the copyright monopoly….
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Bitcoin's Four Hurdles: Part Four – Exchanges
In my final post about Bitcoin’s four hurdles, I will be covering exchanges. This may be the most visible point of Bitcoin’s growth pains….
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Startup Investors: "Patents are a cancer"
One oft-questioned objective of the Pirate Parties is the dismantlement of the patent system, as in scrapping the concept altogether. Patents are a remnant…
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Bitcoin's Four Hurdles: Part Three – Escrow
Bitcoin is revolutionary in that its transactions are untraceable and irreversible. But in a system as large as The Economy, large changes must come…
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Bitcoin's Four Hurdles: Part Two – Transactions
This is part two in my series about Bitcoin’s Four Hurdles. I have previously addressed usability. Today, I will take a look at transactions….
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Bitcoin's Four Hurdles: Part One – Usability
Bitcoin is an amazing technology with an insane potential. But there are four things that must appear for that potential to materialize. This is…
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Stallman's "The Right To Read" Becomes Dreaded, Insane Reality
Fifteen years ago, Dr. Richard Stallman published a dystopic short story called “The Right To Read“. It is set in an extrapolated future of…
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Insane, Repulsive: Grandmother Of Eight Sentenced To Three Years Jail For Sharing Music
Yesterday, I was on Scottish radio discussing the upcoming verdict of Anne Muir, a 58-year-old grandmother of eight who was about to be convicted…
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Why I'm Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin
These past days, I have done a lot of thinking about bitcoin that ended up with me investing all of the money I had…
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