By Kevin Helms, Reusable payment codes, which can be used in place of bitcoin addresses to give transactions more privacy, just got more useful. Now there is a directory for payment codes, beta-launched last week by the Samourai Wallet developers. What is a Payment...
By Justin Connell, Brave’s open-source internet browser, which caused consternation among some newspaper publishers who threatened to sue the company, wants to simplify Bitcoin and use it to power the future internet. It plans to do this by paying publishers with...
By Nelson M Rosario, “What’s in a name? That which we call an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust by any other name would smell as sweet.” – William ‘Satoshi’ Shakespeare (probably) In the beginning, there was...
By Stan Higgins, The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), a cooperative group of global securities markets regulators, has published a wide-ranging research paper that includes findings on blockchain tech. The 70-plus page paper, published...
By Willy Woo, This infographic of bitcoin’s price is something I’ve been pondering today. It tells bitcoin’s often dramatic price story in fundamental trend lines that abstract away some serious doses of speculative activity. There’s a lot in...