Archive for 2015

Reverse BitPay - receive fiat payments, get paid in Bitcoin

There are a lot of projects in the Bitcoin space that act as Bitcoin to fiat bridges - they accept Bitcoin and sometimes other currencies on...

Recently, I was invited to be a speaker for the 2015 Annual Gathering of Mensa Canada . Instead of doing the usual "What is Bitcoin...

Recently I had a chat about what would be some good features for a block explorer to have. One thing I don't really see implemented too ...

As discussed earlier , the Bitcoin network has recently been flooded with a lot of spam transactions . While at least some of this was an ho...

As many of you might've noticed, the Bitcoin network has recently been flooded with a lot of spam transactions . While the problem is no...

In the light of recent banking problems in Greece , it might be interesting to revisit the ideas behind the Euro and how they hold up in the...

In the recent months there has been a lot of buzz in the financial world about the " blockchain technology ". It seems that everyo...

As everyone might've heard by now, there is a big debate in the Bitcoin community about whether or not we should increase the block size...

For over a year, the Bitcoin world has been intrigued with the concept of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - quasi-corporations follo...

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking with David Schwartz , Chief Cryptographer at Ripple Labs about a topic that I haven't heard cov...

Last Thursday at Decentral Vancouver we were discussing BitShares and BitUSD with Max Wright (I recommend his BitShares 101 series of vid...

When thinking about a currency on a simple exchange as a fairly inert object. You can throw money at the market, swing it up or down, but wi...

In the last few months a lot of people have been talking about the "mysterious 21 Inc " - a Bitcoin startup that raised $116M in r...

In the recent years there have been a few attempts at creating digital identities using cryptography and the blockchain. We had BitID using...

Fungibility is one of the desired properties of money. You want every unit of money to be worth exactly its face value and be interchangeab...