Surprise: DOJ Is Not a Big Fan of Privacy-Preserving Cryptocurrencies
Privacy is a right, not a “high risk” and “possibly criminal” activity
Privacy is a right, not a “high risk” and “possibly criminal” activity
The 1987 debate that foreshadowed the divide in today's cryptocurrency community
Watch part one of a four-part documentary series about the cypherpunk movement of the 1990s.
Ad revenue is way down, but crypto offers an alternative revenue model for online publications. Is it workable?
Western countries aren’t immune to the siren call of surveillance via commerce-tracking.
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.
Listen to economists Saifedean Ammous and George Selgin face off at the Soho Forum.
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.
This historian and online-education entrepreneur says runaway slaves, ladies of the evening, bootleggers, and other dropouts and discontents made America free.
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.
A cashless society is a monitored (and potentially controlled) society.
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.
Economists Kenneth Rogoff and Lawrence H. White face off over what the impact would be of a ban on cryptocurrency and phaseout of the $100 bill.
Plus: the First Amendment problems with prosecuting Wikileaks and the trans troops ban is dealt another blow.
The next Reason/Soho Forum debate takes place in New York on December 3 and features Harvard's Ken Rogoff and GMU's Larry White.
Q&A with Alex Winter, whose new documentary, Trust Machine, explores the radical potential of blockchain to decentralize just about everything.
Facebook, Twitter, and other mainstream social networks have their issues. Are these 5 platforms viable alternatives?
Startups from Cape Town to Nairobi think the budding technology is the future of the continent.
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.
A long-awaited prediction market comes online. Cue the freakout.
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.
The country has liberalized one aspect of the disastrous capital controls established by Hugo Chavez in 2003.
A handful of best practices can go a long way toward shielding your transactions from government spies and other malevolents.
This will hurt innocent people. It may harm legal businesses. And it won't actually work.
Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer turned over the company and seven other executives in exchange for leniency.
HBO's hit sitcom about the tech industry lights a real-world path to a better internet.
Plus: Paying taxes on cryptocurrency, Trump's delusional trade talk, and how the FBI is abusing FOIA to go after whistleblowers
Florida man accused of ripping off government agency that rips off taxpayers.
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur says cryptocurrencies, virtual reality, and mobile devices are helping individuals escape failed institutions.
Regulators seem to recognize the need for restraint.
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