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April 2015
News

ESMA European Securities Regulator Calls for Evidence

On 22 April 2015 the European securities regulator ESMA released a document that is the result of their 6-month study of the digital currency sector. It consists of a 19-page […]

May 2015
News

Bitcoin World Power Ranking for Meetups

In March and April 2015 Bitcoin Wednesday rose to the top of the list in the Bitcoin World Power Ranking for Bitcoin Meetups around the world.   We’ve been in the […]

Opinion

The Legacy of Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht’s Life Sentence

The New York Times’ Benjamin Weiser reports the following in this article on the notorious Silk Road marketplace: During the brief time that Silk Road operated between February 2011 and the time […]

June 2015
Opinion

The Legacy of Silk Road Part 2 – Decentralized Marketplaces

Soon after BitcoinWednesday released a piece about The Legacy of Silk Road, a reader pointed out a story in The Economist called “Silk Road’s Successors” which reprinted the following chart on the […]

Opinion

Is Bitcoin Anonymous? The Legacy of Silk Road Part 3

When news first broke in 2011 of an online marketplace built by hackers on the “dark web” where users could buy and sell illegal drugs and weapons for bitcoins, much of […]

News

Bitcoin Wednesday at VondelCS on July First

Bitcoin Wednesday will celebrate its 2-year anniversary in Amsterdam’s Vondelpark at VondelCS, the slick, new broadcasting, culture and media center of national broadcaster AVROTROS. VondelCS is not only a special location […]

July 2015
Preview

PGP Key Signing

PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, computer software that can protect the contents of messages, text, and files.  It  is considered a highly effective form of information security, and was used by […]

Opinion

Security, Identity and Trust

For what seems like centuries we’ve relied on central authorities like large corporations, banks, security forces and governments, to establish the essential conditions for business transactions: security, identity and trust. […]

News

Evil Hackers and Bitcoin Anonymity

Evil Hackers A front page story in The New York Times on 26 July 2015 gives readers a glimpse into a dystopian world of online fraud committed by criminal hackers who demand […]

Antonopoulos

Andreas Antonopoulos on Privacy and Data Collection

Buried at the tail end of a long interview with Andreas Antonopoulos are a number of sharp observations about the relationship between the digital currency revolution and civil rights on […]