Commentary

Back in January 2009, the first ever Bitcoin transaction took place. Since then, awareness of the currency has grown and coins have greatly increased in value. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a unit of value which exists in digital format ...

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Author: Zack Voell Essential to cryptocurrency ideology is the understanding that governments are unable to impede or otherwise affect the use and growth of alternative, decentralized monies. Perhaps that premise renders an overview of the 2016 presidential candidates irrelevant. ...

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Author: George Basiladze In the ever-changing world of finance, many of us grow less and less dependent on physical, paper money. The rapid development of financial technology has allowed us to effectively skip out the physical exchange of monies, ...

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We've been talking about the #DontExposeEvil meme contest for quite some time now. It all began when Google pulled ads from Antiwar.com due to graphic war images that were hosted on the site. Bitcoin Not Bombs decided to fight ...

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Last week, Overstock.com filed paperwork to begin offering stock (and perhaps other securities) in a digital form. The company's CEO, Patrick Byrne, has been planning this move since last summer, when he announced at a Bitcoin 2014 that he ...

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Happy 420! For probably a variety of reasons, April 20 is a day when people celebrate the cannabis subculture and perhaps consume a few extra green sticky leaves. My co-host, Tim Baker, told me once that he thinks special ...

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What do you do when you can't tell what's legal and what's not? Often, the answer is nothing. We simply rest on our laurels until the gov'ment tells us what's permitted, because we don't want to risk getting in ...

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Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock.com, is greatly respected by many in the Bitcoin community. His company started accepting Bitcoin relatively early (January 2014) and was the largest to do so at the time. Byrne is also well known ...

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