Erik Voorhees: Bitcoin's Point Is 'To Change the Whole Financial System of the Planet.'
The cryptocurrency pioneer explains why governments can't stop bitcoin 'despite all their guns and weapons.'
The cryptocurrency pioneer explains why governments can't stop bitcoin 'despite all their guns and weapons.'
The ShapeShift founder and early pioneer in the space talks about why bitcoin poses an existential threat to fiat money.
The former Google engineer talks about inflation, the Austrian school of economics, and how bitcoin is revolutionizing banking.
Former Google engineer Vijay Boyapati talks inflation, the Austrian school of economics, and his new book on bitcoin.
The Wyoming Republican says cryptocurrency will spur renewable energy, protect privacy, and possibly save the dollar.
The Wyoming Republican believes bitcoin provides a serious alternative store of value, will spur renewable energy, and just might save the dollar.
Why is it so hard for him to just admit he was wrong?
Chairman Jerome Powell says the Fed will look into the "benefits and risks" of a digital dollar.
There are any number of ways regulators may seek to clamp down on cryptocurrencies.
Ignore the hype: Latin American immigration is (still) the city’s greatest strength.
Platform censorship results from centralized design. Cryptocurrency techies are building decentralized alternatives.
Meet the visionaries building a new, un-censorable, peer-to-peer web using the tools of encryption and cryptocurrency.
Some of them like the stock, but all of them think our financial system is broken.
"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."
Reason's writers and editors share their suggestions for what you should be buying your friends and family this year.
"I obviously identify with and resonate with and connect with my libertarian brothers and sisters on so many levels," says the controversial former child actor.
The final installment in a four-part documentary series "Cypherpunks Write Code"
Privacy is a right, not a “high risk” and “possibly criminal” activity
The 1987 debate that foreshadowed the divide in today's cryptocurrency community
Ad revenue is way down, but crypto offers an alternative revenue model for online publications. Is it workable?
William Zietzke’s tax battle may affect thousands of cryptocurrency holders.
Twitter CEO's connection to Bitcoin-friendly tools suggests more commitment to privacy than Facebook's Libra proposal.
Regulators hate Facebook's proposed "Libra” currency. They may kill it. But they can't kill Bitcoin so easily.
After senators sent threatening letters to Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe, the companies "decided" not to sign on to the online payment system.
A new book aims to chronicle the digital currency's ideological origins.
Watch economists Saifedean Ammous and George Selgin face off at the Soho Forum.
Cryptocurrency is a human rights issue, explains Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation.
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez will never get to interrogate Satoshi Nakamoto.
If there’s one thing government types can agree on, it’s that nobody should be allowed to buy and sell stuff without permission.
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest venture won't compete with Satoshi Nakamoto’s project for undermining central banking, tyranny, and the financial surveillance state.
In his new book, Fall, the author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Diamond Age, looks to the digital afterlife, and beyond.
A new documentary reveals how stable currency leads to prosperity.
As the cryptocurrency continues use, issues of privacy and fungibility crop up.
Michael Shermer, Ron Bailey, and Jim Epstein talk poverty-eradication, genomics, and blockchain at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration
The Cypherpunk co-founder was a major influence on both bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
Q&A with Alex Winter, whose new documentary, Trust Machine, explores the radical potential of blockchain to decentralize just about everything.
To assume that governments do better at keeping currencies stable ignores parts of the world.
Venezuela attempts to combat economic illiteracy with more economic illiteracy.
Cybercurrencies are not as anonymous as you might think.
With its supply permanently capped at 21 million units, Satoshi Nakamoto's invention may turn out to be the best form of money ever conceived.
Chairman Jerome Powell says they are putting their money in risky, unbacked investments built on reckless speculation.
Entrapment prosecution of bitcoin exchangers highlights government's war on privacy.
The SEC is getting serious about initial coin offering (ICO) oversight.