Articles

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 […]

May 2015
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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

March 2015
News

Special Agenda: 1 April 2015

On the first of April 2015, for the 22nd consecutive month, Bitcoin Wednesday will hold its conference series on the digital currency revolution in The Netherlands. This month’s program will […]

Preview

Prediction Markets and the Blockchain

Rounding off Bitcoin Wednesday #21‘s conference with its theme of banned marketplaces, is a look at prediction markets given by Joey Krug, lead developer for the California-based Augur prediction market solution. Augur is […]

News

Bitcoin Future of Currency

In answer to recent requests for comment from the press on whether “Bitcoin is More Than Money”, the Dutch Bitcoin Foundation recently released the following statement: Bitcoin is clearly more […]

February 2015
News

Poll Results from Bitcoin Wednesday #20

On 4 February 2015 stichting Bitcoin Nederland, the Dutch Bitcoin Foundation, conducted a general poll about the needs and concerns of the Dutch digital currency community. Here are the results: […]

News

News: Bitcoin Wednesday #20

Coinbase has announced a $75 million dollar “C” with investment from none other than the NYSE. Are dominant, centralized Bitcoin services just around the corner? Voting with Ethereum Contracts: Jasper […]

News

News: Bitcoin Wednesday #20

Eric Larchevêque, CEO of Ledger will be here from Paris to present the Ledger hardware wallet on a USB. He’ll also show the new NFC wallet, the Proton, just unveiled […]