Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin Exchange User Tries to Stop IRS From Forcing Coinbase to Give Up Customer Information
IRS is acting in bad faith and overreaching, argues motion to quash its subpoena seeking a wide range of information about the bitcoin exchange's customers.
Venezuelans Don't Believe in Bitcoin. They Need Bitcoin.
Pragmatism trumping ideology is a positive sign for cryptocurrency.
Governments Trash Cash, Making Alternative 'Money' More Attractive
Bitcoin, gold, and other unofficial means of exchange get free marketing from idiotic officials.
Court Allows IRS to Order Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase to Give Up Their Customers' Identities
Attempts to make sure the feds can successfully tax pseudonymous bitcoin transactions getting serious.
Donate to Reason Because Our Journalism Helps Poor Venezuelans AND Teen Sexters
Stories that inspire others to generate bitcoins for the victims of socialism and legal representation for cellphone Romeos.
How Bitcoin Is Undermining Socialism in Latin America
Rodrigo Souza on why technology is the clearest path to freedom.
3 Ways Bitcoin Is Promoting Freedom in Latin America
Cryptocurrency vs. tariffs, monetary controls, and red tape.
The Secret, Dangerous World of Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining
How cryptocurrency is turning socialism against itself
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne on Gary Johnson, Trump vs. Clinton, and Bringing the Blockchain to the Stock Market
Byrne is funding a documentary that critiques the two-party system and launching a venture to disrupt the financial sector with blockchain technology.
California Bitcoin Regulatory Bill Pulled by Its Sponsor
Now-dead bill would have regulated anyone who ever used Bitcoin, and video games with in-game digital currencies with real world value, as if they were a professional money transmitter.
Bot-Run Company of the Future Gets Hacked
A funny thing happened on the way to a post-capitalist, crypto-anarchist utopia.
Can OpenBazaar Make Free Trade Unstoppable?
A look at the bitcoin-powered network facilitating peer-to-peer exchange.
Florida Judge Says Bitcoin Not Money, Selling it Can't Make You Violate a Money Transmitter Statute
Also throws out money laundering charges against Miami man Michell Espinoza, who was arrested for selling bitcoin to a cop.
Ethereum Markets Reeling After Security Fault Allows Massive Theft
The DAO, which uses Ethereum for decentralized venture capital investing, targeted in multi-million theft.
Can a Bot Run a Company?
The DAO is an ambitious project that's already amassed an incredible amount of funding. A lot could go wrong, but it could be revolutionary if it goes right.
An Autonomous, Software-Based Venture Capital Fund Just Raised $163 Million. It's the Largest Crowdfunding Campaign in History.
Technology stays one step ahead of government.
Is Blockchain Technology a Trojan Horse Behind Wall Street's Walled Garden?
At the Bitcoin/blockchain industry's flagship annual conference, blue chip banks were out in force.
Can Blockchain Technology Reduce Third-World Poverty?
A better way to keep track of who owns what land.
Trump's Plan for Making Financial Black Markets Great Again
The presidential wannabe's scheme will likely draw more illegal immigrants and fuel illegal evasion of capital controls.
The BitLicense Regulation Is Eight Months Old. One Has Been Granted to Date.
How red tape is hurting the cryptocurrency industry.
Can Ethereum Restore Online Freedom and Transform the Internet?
"It will impact every aspect of our existence."
Ross Ulbricht's Sentencing Indecent, Based on Procedural and Substantive Errors, New Amicus Brief Argues
Drug Policy Alliance and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, others, speak out against Silk Road founder's absurd life sentence without parole.
The Real Power of Cash Is Its Anonymity
Getting rid of the $100 bill is one more trim on our freedom to be left alone.
New Hampshire's Free State Project Eschews Presidential Primaries While Changing State Politics
These pioneering libertarians, soon to be 20,000 strong, have already changed Granite State laws.
Bitcoin Isn't Dead—But It Is Threatened by Tech Infighting
The cryptocurrency's crucial censorship-resistant property is not stewarded as cautiously as it should be by those in the Bitcoin community.
Will 2016 Be a Record Year for Bitcoin?
Prices of the cryptocurrency are expected to reach a record high next year.
Leave Satoshi Alone!
This month saw journalists engaged in yet another failed attempt to discover the identity of Bitcoin's creator.
Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?
And does the identity of Bitcoin's creator really matter for the future of this 'fatherless' cryptocurrency?
Wired Presents Very Convincing Circumstantial Case They've Identified Bitcoin Creator 'Satoshi Nakamoto' [UPDATED! Let the Debunking Commence!]
Perhaps obscure, unsuspected Australian computer whiz Craig Steven Wright invented the cryptocurrency, controls 1.1 million of them.
Before You Watch Dark Net, Make Sure You've Seen Deep Web
A new Showtime series sounds pretty alarmist about everything that makes the Internet great.
Ban Encryption? It's an Impossible Idea Whose Time Will Never Come
Of course government officials want to ban privacy-oriented technologies. They were created to thwart the grasping creatures.
Bitcoin Is a 'Fatherless' Technology. Great Attribute or Fatal Weakness?
Can Bitcoin grow and evolve without a founding figure?
Has Bitcoin Already Been Co-opted by Wall Street?
Nathaniel Popper answers in his new book, Digital Gold.
The Freeman's Max Borders: Libertarians Should Be More Optimistic About the Future
Bitcoin and other disruptive technologies are having an important impact on developing countries.
Bitcoin: Great Libertarian Hope or Already Co-opted By Wall Street Banks?
Q&A with Nathaniel Popper on his new book, Digital Gold.
Lawman Johnny Lawsky's Legacy: Bitcoin Firms Flee New York
Ten startups have turned off their services in the Empire State to avoid applying for a BitLicense.
Augur May Become the Greatest Gambling Platform in History. Is There Anything the Government Can Do to Stop It?
A blockchain-based prediction market that won't be controlled or managed by anyone.
George Gilder: Net Neutrality Is a 'Ludicrous' Idea That Will Shrink the Economy
The legendary tech writer on net neutrality, the FCC, and why Bitcoin is the missing eighth layer of the Internet.
Bitcoin May Be Too Late for Greece, But Not Other Countries Headed In That Direction
Counteracting government thieving
No, the Greek Banking Crisis Isn't About to Turn the Country Into a Bitcoin Paradise
If there ever were any Greeks to speak of transferring their savings into bitcoins, chances are most have stopped.
Federal Agent Investigating Silk Road Pleads Guilty to Extortion and Money Laundering
Carl Mark Force had also inked a $240,000 movie deal about tracking down "Dread Pirate Roberts."
OpenBazaar, an Online Platform for "Censorship-Resistant Trade," Gets $1 Million In Backing From Venture Capital Heavyweights Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures
Investors give a vote of confidence to a libertarian-themed tech venture.
Bitcoin's Long-Term Viability Threatened by Block Size Limits
If unaddressed, an arbitrary protocol quirk implemented by Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could soon undermine the scalability and long-term viability of the cryptocurrency.
New York Just Announced the Final Details of the BitLicense, a New Regulatory Regime For the Bitcoin Industry, and They're Pretty Frightening
The BitLicense will provide a "moat" protecting Wall Street from Bitcoin.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown in Playboy (Not Like That) on How We'll Soon Send Money Quickly, Anonymously, and From Anywhere
Historically uncool QR codes are poised to be a main driver of anonymous e-payment.
Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Gets Life in Prison
Reporting from outside the courthouse, Kurt Loder caught up with Ross' mother, Lyn, and filmmaker Alex Winter.
