The Commodities Futures Trading Commission announces charges and settlements with three companies that may mean very bad news for all DeFi operations doing business with U.S. citizens.
When your business relies on volunteer moderators and user-generated content, angry denizens can threaten the whole enterprise.
Where am I supposed to spend my cryptocurrency?
Is breaking up the U.S. a good idea? Law professor F.H. Buckley and Libertarian Party activist Jonathan Casey debate.
Is breaking up the U.S. a good idea? Law professor F.H. Buckley and Libertarian Party activist Jonathan Casey debate.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of the decentralized protocol Nostr with NVK, Damus app creator Will Casarin, Nick Gillespie, and Zach Weissmueller.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of "Project Decentralized REVOLution" with Mises Caucus founder Michael Heise.
Mastodon might not be the future of decentralized social media, but it can’t hurt to check it out as Twitter implodes.
Tensions won’t simmer down until Americans stop fearing power in the hands of enemies.
The government controls on the traditional banking system also apply to custodial cryptocurrency services.
"Obviously we could have used the money, but at what cost?,” says Sheila Hemphill, an activist and lobbyist from Brady, Texas
Why give legacy media a stranglehold over information that Twitter at its best is great for sharing?
Meet the new hype cycle about new tools for online decentralization.
The visionary hacker on how he plans to "solve A.I." and why he thinks this will be a "decade of decentralization."
Americans are divided not because politicians failed to pronounce the correct phrases, but because we genuinely disagree on questions of public policy, justice, and identity.
Revived federalism is a start, but it doesn’t go far enough.
Meet the visionaries building a new, un-censorable, peer-to-peer web using the tools of encryption and cryptocurrency.
Let people join with the like-minded to reject officials and laws that don’t suit them and to construct systems that do.
Circumstances change and the world may grow more complicated, but authoritarians never vary from their demand for more power over our lives.
Apple and Google's Bluetooth-based app would reportedly be voluntary and anonymous. Privacy advocates say we should accept nothing less.
People around the world are working together in unprecedented ways to help their neighbors and produce critical medical supplies.
We may find that we like making our own decisions.
Media theorist Marshall McLuhan's work best explains how the world changed in the 2010s—and what we can expect in the decade ahead.
Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are in the federal government's crosshairs, but the technology necessary to undermine their dominance may already exist.
A judge has ruled that the town's Confederate monuments must stay.
A new book aims to chronicle the digital currency's ideological origins.
Whether red vs. blue or city vs. country, political tensions are best addressed by letting people run their own lives.
Startups from Cape Town to Nairobi think the budding technology is the future of the continent.
It's time to move beyond the social media giants to a more decentralized world that's harder to control
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.
We asked the attendees at PorcFest 2018.
In a speech drafted but never delivered in the waning weeks of the 1980 campaign, Reagan was to say: "The overriding question is not one of Left or Right. It is one of reversing the flow of power and control to ever more remote institutions."
His critique of concentrated power is still relevant today.
The death and life of a great American urbanist
Cities will be able to set local rules governing food production and sales.
Meet the developers behind Blockstack, who are using blockchain technology to reconfigure the web. It'll make NSA mass data collection impossible.
The candidate who told an audience of cops that he'd abolish the New York Police Department
But as long as distant authorities are in charge, that's impossible.
Elinor Ostrom and the case against centralization
A new book offers some decent ideas for revitalizing the Motor City—but it doesn't go far enough.
The "Points of Light" program and the path not taken