Embattled Administration Pushes Midnight Controls on Financial Tech
Bureaucracy keeps on regulating through the chaos
Bureaucracy keeps on regulating through the chaos
Government surveillance doesn't just violate privacy rights; it’s a major security risk.
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"
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.
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.
As the cryptocurrency continues use, issues of privacy and fungibility crop up.
A cashless society is a monitored (and potentially controlled) society.
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.
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.
Chairman Jerome Powell says they are putting their money in risky, unbacked investments built on reckless speculation.
The SEC is getting serious about initial coin offering (ICO) oversight.
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.
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.
Officials want to track every financial transaction you make, and they see cryptocurrencies and cash alike as barriers to achieving that goal.
New technologies are helping the adult industry adjust to government regulations and give more power to performers.
If buying drugs online feels easy, you're probably doing it wrong.
How do we scale the system for broad use?
Q&A with Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
Evaluating the current cycle of buzz