Blog – Crypto

When I hired a freelance developer overseas I asked if he would accept payment in crypto. He agreed to give it a try and it was a huge win for us both. The minute his pay was due he got it instantly, with no fees, internationally!

If the crypto community stopped calling dollars, yen, euros, et cetera fiat currency and started calling them government currency people would more easily see the problems with these currencies and the advantages of the crypto solution.

For real change don’t fight the system, bypass the system by not voting, paying taxes or using banks and government currency. Use crypto instead.

I was not convinced to buy crypto until the 4th time I looked into it. But it was not until I actually used crypto that I realized why it was going to change the world.

Immigration laws, borders and citizenship are ways for people to deny other people rights that they themselves enjoy based on birthplace. This is irrelevant, unjust and counterproductive separation of people.

The main problems are

• Forces address reuse.
• Accepts weak passwords.
• Closed source.
• No 2FA.

There is no compromise for major change to bitcoin that 95% of the network will agree to. The only way to make meaningful improvements is to hard-fork. Can we accept that after the hard fork there will be 2 separate networks with different rules?

“we’ve been under DDoS since the first month we launched—over three years–yay. Plus we have put real fiat dollars into our lawyers’ pockets, to defend our customers from their own government.”

Supermodel Derek Zoolander, form the eponymous 2001 hit comedy, revealed In an interview with Vogue that his new favorite look is called bitcoin: “it’s completely virtual, but it’s very valuable, I don’t really understand it.”

BitEdge is the new name of the Bitcoin Betting Guide. Every bettor wants an edge and crypto plus this site is the best way to get one. “Bitcoin Betting Guide” was a literal description of the website whereas “BitEdge” is the essence of what we are about.

Directly tipping online content creators could be a powerful application for bitcoin giving websites a new income stream outside of the much hated display advertising and email marketing.

The best talks and presentations by crypto experts and rockstars of the crypto community. These talks that go in depth but are not technical or hard to understand.

If you are a crypto user it’s safe to say government agencies, hackers and extortionists might be interested. Your first and best line of defense is a VPN.

I have just had the pleasure of attending the Melbourne Inside Bitcoins conference organized by Mecklermedia. It was a 2 day conference covering all areas of the crypto space. Most prominently regulation, start-ups and retail.

To celebrate the MIT Bitcoin Club’s distribution of $100 worth of bitcoin to all undergraduate students and to help you experience the benefits of crypto, BitEdge would like to offer you 10 mBTC (~$5) for free via Nitrogen Sports.

GoCoin has decided not to accept Seedcoin Fund I investment despite Seedcoin having advertised and sold the fund as having GoCoin in it. This is a failure of Seedcoin management and an unintentional shafting of investors.

Tagger is a Canadian near field communication (NFC) company that make a physical bitcoin wallet that can be used for receiving bitcoins face to face and for storing and transporting bitcoins in a physical form.

Tonight I had the pleasure of attending another great Melbourne bitcoin meetup. Everyone has a project the are excited about, programmers and entrepreneurs from all backgrounds are forming new teams and building new crypto services and infrastructure.

Huntercoin is a human mineable crypto in the form of a game. Every move in the game is a transaction on the blockchain and the whole game state and protocol is stored on the blockchain rather than a game publishers centralised servers.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde is an important figure in the old, centralized, money as debt system. She answer 1 hour of questions from the public on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Q&A.