November, 2013 Archives
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Decentralized Exchange for Fun & Profit
November 27th, 2013 by
John Light Even with all its established infrastructure and progress, Ripple is still a difficult product for many to make sense of. When you peel away the familiar trapping of a cryptocurrency, Ripple can be seen for what it really is; a nearly universal exchange for digital and traditional currencies. As returning guest author John Light shows us, the one universal currency is, in fact, Trust. Read More -
On Thick Ice
November 25th, 2013 by
Adam B. Levine Cryptocurrency- mainly Bitcoin- has suddenly found secure footing in the business world. It's moving forward with ferocious momentum, hitting the mainstream in countries all over the world. Things are getting pretty comfortable for the blockchain and its advocates. "Comfortable," however, is still a long way from "safe." Read More -
Join LTB in Las Vegas Get 20% OFF
November 22nd, 2013 by
Mediabistro The holidays are here, and the whole team at Let's Talk Bitcoin are headed to Las Vegas for... Talking about Bitcoin obviously!Join Adam, Andreas and Stephanie at the Inside Bitcoins West conference for two days of panels, talks and meetups! We're in town for the Inside Bitcoins Conference Dec 10-11 and would love to see you there!
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New Alt-ZeroCoin Faster, More Private
November 18th, 2013 by
Mark Matthews In the wake of Coinvalidation proposing strict approvals, blacklists, ZeroCoin's Matthew Green has made a bold statement; ZeroCoin, once just a Bitcoin derivative, will be streamlining proofs and increasing user anonymity, and ultimately launching an independent Altcoin. ZeroCoin is now placing itself squarely in the middle of cryptocurrency and Federal regulation, and a standoff may be imminent. Read More -
Big in China; What's Different Now?
November 16th, 2013 by
George Ettinger Man, oh man. It's happening again. Prices are going absolutely insane. So Bitcoin is big in China, and now values are skyrocketing. What do we do? What does this mean? It's not time to bunker down for a crash... but it's not time to invest your life savings, either. George Ettinger gets into the complexities of Bitcoin's new "bubble." Read More -
DACs That Spawn DACs?
November 13th, 2013 by
Stan Larimer The automation of decentralized protocols like Bitcoin and Bitshares is what gives them their objectivity- their perceived "incorruptibility." With that automation and lack of corruptible human elements, however, comes vulnerability to interpretation and regulation. How do you set a foundation for an Autonomous Corporation that can keep flying high on autopilot? Read More -
The DAC Associated Press
November 11th, 2013 by
Daniel Larimer Building upon the concepts in his previous "DAC Revisited," Daniel Larimer deconstructs how content aggregators and news sites centralize their authority and resources, and what keeps them from achieving functional autonomy. How can such a service provider become truly decentralized, and will it be durable enough to persist? Read More -
Bitcoin Simply Cannot Replace Fiat
November 9th, 2013 by
John Delono We're all here because we love Bitcoin. There's no denying that it's as versatile as it is brilliant, but is it really the future of money? Sometimes we need to put aside our ideals and look at the serious challenges that Bitcoin faces- challenges that, as John Delono illustrates, it may never overcome. Read More -
Join LTB @ Inside Bitcoins, Las Vegas!
November 7th, 2013 by Adam B. Levine For the first time since the San Jose Bitcoin Conference, all the hosts of Let’s Talk Bitcoin! will be in attendance. Adam will be hosting a panel on New Ideas in Bitcoin, Stephanie will be conducting her trademark conference interviews and Andreas will be absolutely exhausted after flying directly from Buenos Aires to Las Vegas in order to be there. Hope to see you there! Read More -
Highway Robbery? Bitcoin User Not Affected!
November 6th, 2013 by
Dan Roseman Asset forfeiture, unsurprisingly, can be shady business. The seizing of funds and resources by law enforcement isn't just easy to abuse- the abuse is systemic. Civil forfeitures of fiat currency can take resources for nearly any reason, and leave citizens with no means of recovering it. Bitcoin, however, has natural advantages. Read More -
The Ripple Problem
November 4th, 2013 by Adam B. Levine Mentions at the recent C2SV conference have brought fresh attention to Ripple, the alternative-alternative to cryptocurrency- but attention doesn't always bring understanding. Ripple takes a very different approach to digital transactions and ultimately carries a very different philosophy with it. LTB's Adam B. Levine discusses Ripple's purpose, and prices of anonymity and compliance. Read More -
DAC Revisited
November 2nd, 2013 by Daniel Larimer In recent months, the concept of "Distributed Autonomous Corporations" has evolved from jargon to terminology. The DAC concept is a highly promising ideology for the array of disruptive, innovative technologies that are emerging in Bitcoin's wake... but how does it really apply? Are any really in use right now? DAC pioneer Daniel Larimer of Invictus Innovations returns to Let's Talk Bitcoin to help make sense of what is- and perhaps what ISN'T- a DAC. Read More
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