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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #153 Medici and the Pretense of Law
October 14th, 2014 by
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Erik Voorhees Explains Why Some Bitcoin Companies Are Blocking American Users
October 14th, 2014 by
Kyle Torpey Although Americans generally believe that they live in the home of free markets, the United States’ role as a leader of economic freedom has been declining for decades. The United States ranked 12th on the latest version of the Heritage Foundation’s economic freedom index and is now relegated to the designation of “mostly free.” The myth of unbridled economic freedom in America is being exposed by Bitcoin. Read More -
Chain Wars: Tine Attack
October 13th, 2014 by
mike ward This is part two of a series called Chain Wars. It started last week with this double length intro: http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/chain-wars-the-worm
Tine van der Hoeff was an expert in keeping next generation blockchains running. But she was lured away on an important task by an unknown patron. Working with her friend Theo, she plans to attack the chain worm, Naga Sib.
Tine understood how important it was for humans to maintain control over their technology. She knew that humans set the rules for the chain when the code was launched. Surely, she thought, better chain design could prevent chain infections from happening.
Some parts of the Naga Sib codebase remained mysterious, including the instruction set for building the next generation. Many of its secrets were hidden in a big binary blob, from which both parts of the worm could be made. It was not clear how to extract the information from that binary hunk of code, but it contained the digital DNA of the chain worm.
Tine's current goal was to figure out how it worked and how to conquer it. She would kill both halves of this at the same time. Then she intended to find out who was behind Naga Sib, and why.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #152 - Towards Innovation and Progress
October 11th, 2014 by Adam B. Levine -
Darkcoin Anonymity Fully Functional and Open Source; Instant Transactions on the Way
October 8th, 2014 by
Fernando Gutierrez Today I provide more detail on DarkSend, the name of Darkcoin's anonymity feature, and sketch the next amazing use of masternodes -- instant transactions.
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Beyond Bitcoin - 17 - Counterpartying With Robby Dermody
October 7th, 2014 by
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Bitcoins and Gravy Episode #36: Airbitz.co & OpenBazaar.org
October 6th, 2014 by
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Independence Bancshares Studying Virtual Currencies
October 5th, 2014 by
Brian Cohen Independence Bancshares - a publicly traded (albeit thinly on the OTC:QX), FDIC-insured, community-based bank in Greenville, South Carolina - seemed poised to become the first bank in the United States to embrace Bitcoin payments, according to three patents published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. However, after speaking with Chief Executive Officer Gordon Baird, Let's Talk Bitcoin has learned that Independence Bancshares has clearly distanced themselves from Bitcoin, but is "studying virtual currencies."
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On Singularity - Part 2: Decentralized Autonomous ... Human Beings
October 5th, 2014 by
Ryan Walker While the significance of putting a man on the moon is obvious, what is often lost is an appreciation for the enormity of prior achievements and the conditions required to make it possible. The establishment of the nation-state as a societal structure unleashed the untapped potential of collectively incentivized human action. Had it not been for its existence, how many more centuries may have been required for mankind to reach such literal and figurative heights? Akin to the establishment of the nation-state, the ascension of decentralized autonomy may further catalyze collective human action to even greater levels of achievement, including the reaches of singularity.
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Chain Wars: The Worm
October 4th, 2014 by mike ward It all started when a decentralized app called Naga Sib, running on the NetherChain, got out of control. These autonomous entities could be coded to prioritize self-preservation, even if that meant bad consequences for others. Naga Sib was no ordinary app. It was designed for trouble. How easily we lose control of our technologies when we're not careful. Read More -
Bitcoin Is the Currency of the Private, Decentralized Economy
October 3rd, 2014 by Kyle Torpey Bitcoin makes the private, decentralized ecommerce economy possible. Now that value can be transferred in a censorship-resistant manner, nothing is stopping the creation of services for private forms of communication and finance over the Internet. Read More
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