Byrne is funding a documentary that critiques the two-party system and launching a venture to disrupt the financial sector with blockchain technology.
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.
A funny thing happened on the way to a post-capitalist, crypto-anarchist utopia.
A look at the bitcoin-powered network facilitating peer-to-peer exchange.
Also throws out money laundering charges against Miami man Michell Espinoza, who was arrested for selling bitcoin to a cop.
The DAO, which uses Ethereum for decentralized venture capital investing, targeted in multi-million theft.
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.
Technology stays one step ahead of government.
At the Bitcoin/blockchain industry's flagship annual conference, blue chip banks were out in force.
A better way to keep track of who owns what land.
The presidential wannabe's scheme will likely draw more illegal immigrants and fuel illegal evasion of capital controls.
How red tape is hurting the cryptocurrency industry.
"It will impact every aspect of our existence."
Drug Policy Alliance and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, others, speak out against Silk Road founder's absurd life sentence without parole.
Getting rid of the $100 bill is one more trim on our freedom to be left alone.
These pioneering libertarians, soon to be 20,000 strong, have already changed Granite State laws.
The cryptocurrency's crucial censorship-resistant property is not stewarded as cautiously as it should be by those in the Bitcoin community.
Prices of the cryptocurrency are expected to reach a record high next year.
This month saw journalists engaged in yet another failed attempt to discover the identity of Bitcoin's creator.
And does the identity of Bitcoin's creator really matter for the future of this 'fatherless' cryptocurrency?
Perhaps obscure, unsuspected Australian computer whiz Craig Steven Wright invented the cryptocurrency, controls 1.1 million of them.
A new Showtime series sounds pretty alarmist about everything that makes the Internet great.
Of course government officials want to ban privacy-oriented technologies. They were created to thwart the grasping creatures.
Can Bitcoin grow and evolve without a founding figure?
Nathaniel Popper answers in his new book, Digital Gold.
Bitcoin and other disruptive technologies are having an important impact on developing countries.
Q&A with Nathaniel Popper on his new book, Digital Gold.
Ten startups have turned off their services in the Empire State to avoid applying for a BitLicense.
A blockchain-based prediction market that won't be controlled or managed by anyone.
The legendary tech writer on net neutrality, the FCC, and why Bitcoin is the missing eighth layer of the Internet.
Counteracting government thieving
If there ever were any Greeks to speak of transferring their savings into bitcoins, chances are most have stopped.
Carl Mark Force had also inked a $240,000 movie deal about tracking down "Dread Pirate Roberts."
Investors give a vote of confidence to a libertarian-themed tech venture.
If unaddressed, an arbitrary protocol quirk implemented by Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could soon undermine the scalability and long-term viability of the cryptocurrency.
The BitLicense will provide a "moat" protecting Wall Street from Bitcoin.
Historically uncool QR codes are poised to be a main driver of anonymous e-payment.
Reporting from outside the courthouse, Kurt Loder caught up with Ross' mother, Lyn, and filmmaker Alex Winter.
Even Though There is No Reason Not to Believe It.
The sentence is a miscarriage of justice, and will likely harm drug users down the road.
The documentarian chronicles the rise, fall, and importance of Silk Road.
New York's top financial regulator prepares to turn his Rolodex into gold.
New York's BitLicense will further complicate an already byzantine regulatory regime.
Bitcoin has the potential to take the friction out of sending money abroad, but delivering on that potential isn't easy.
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne is working to encourage broad consumer adoption of Bitcoin.
Will recent breakthroughs in computer science make truly free markets a reality?
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