With Ports Clogged, Some Retailers Are Looking for Alternative Supply Chains
Plus: Columbus Day vs. Indigenous Peoples Day, the Biden administration prepares to regulate cryptocurrencies by executive fiat, and more...
Plus: Columbus Day vs. Indigenous Peoples Day, the Biden administration prepares to regulate cryptocurrencies by executive fiat, and more...
The push for central bank digital currencies is an assault on privacy and freedom.
Omarova's starry-eyed view of the Soviet Union and interest in giving far more power to the Federal Reserve should not inspire confidence.
Though domestic crypto transactions were banned back in 2017, today's move signals that Chinese authorities are making good on their threats from earlier this year.
Innovation should be more important than regulation.
Senegalese app developer Fodé Diop sees bitcoin as a way to end "monetary colonialism" in the developing world.
Old rules and odd enforcement are pushing opportunities overseas.
The Wyoming Republican explains why she's long on bitcoin.
Plus: Vaccine mandates are popular, Texas versus free speech, and more...
A new podcast gives an autopsy of how a shadowy and charismatic crypto enthusiast was able to lure in so many people.
Breaking encryption technologies always makes us less safe, no matter what the justification.
Cryptocurrency advocates fight back against major government overreach.
For now, the side that wants less cryptocurrency regulation and taxation lost.
Plus: California's new pork regulations, Florida's COVID-19 boom, and more...
Watch what happens when the drive for government surveillance meets longstanding technological ignorance.
Financial consultant John Vallis vs. George Mason University economist Lawrence H. White
Financial consultant John Vallis vs. George Mason University economist Lawrence H. White
The ION project promises to give individual users absolute control over their online identity and privacy.
Officially adopting the currency is great news, but mandating acceptance is a problem.
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.
Rather than let students weigh crypto costs and benefits on their own, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claims to know best.
Ignore the hype: Latin American immigration is (still) the city’s greatest strength.
Say what you will about the U.S., but its financial reporting rules are at least consistent.
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."
A decision in the case of Ethereum researcher Virgil Griffith, denying his motion to dismiss.
Some trends to look for over the next four years
Bureaucracy keeps on regulating through the chaos
Government surveillance doesn't just violate privacy rights; it’s a major security risk.
Reason's writers and editors share their suggestions for what you should be buying your friends and family this year.
Protected financial access for politically targeted industries
"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"
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