Blog – Crypto

The basic value proposition of crypto; nearly free and instant transactions of any amount, any time, between any 2 people with no way for a third party to block it, is still amazing and not fully realized.

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.

Crypto and free stuff are 2 of my 2 favorite things. So I am glad that by being actively involved in the community I have been gifted great crypto related items.

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.

The linguistic features used in e-communication by the international bitcoin community on popular internet forums. The raw data is drawn from the bitcoin sub-reddit and the Bitcointalk forum.

When money was limited by the amount of precious materials in existence governments had to tax citizens to fund the programs they wanted to pay for. This is no longer the case.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are no specific laws relating to gambling with crypto. As such we assume that gambling with crypto falls in the same legal category as gambling with government currency

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.

Because I make my income in crypto I have been looking forward to the day I could meet all my living costs with it. That day has arrived sooner than anyone expected!

There is a new bitcoin exchange about to launch in Australia going by the name of 21st Century Bitcoin Exchange. They also plan to operate 100 bitcoin ATMs in Australia and a mobile wallet. They seem very dodgy.