Articles

October 2015
News

Microsoft Joins the Ethereum Party with ConsenSys

For those keeping track, here’s yet another milestone for how the pace of digital currency innovation is accelerating: Microsoft announced its intention to start accepting Bitcoin in December 2014. Less than […]

Opinion

Impressions From Bitcoin Wednesday

Here are some quick notes and impressions from Bitcoin Wednesday on 7 October, 2015. The Marine Terrein is a beautiful location set aside by the city as a center for innovation […]

September 2015
News

Announcement from PikaPay

    The founders of PikaPay are involved in a disagreement about the future of the enterprise. During the process of resolving this disagreement, one of the founders has taken the unusual […]

Opinion

Poll Results 2015

Below are the results of the two periodic polls taken for The Bitcoin Foundation of The Netherlands (stichting Bitcoin Nederland) on 5 August and 2 September, 2015.  The previous poll […]

July 2015
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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

June 2015
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 […]

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 […]