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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]