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Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide
Or how cash would be described in the press if invented today. Full bitcoin series here : Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide New York, February 17, 2014 World governments announced a plan today to allow citizens to anonymously carry parts
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Bitcoin transaction malleability: looking at the bytes
"Malleability" of Bitcoin transactions has recently become a major issue. This article looks at how transactions are modified, at the byte...
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EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers
As the popularity of Bitcoins has increased, government officials are concerned about criminal activity associated with the virtual currency. But a recent subpoena issued by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs to 19-year-old Bitcoin developer and MIT student Jeremy Rubin goes too far, and...
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Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol
All the recent media attention on Bitcoin inspired me to learn how Bitcoin really works, right down to the bytes flowing through the netwo...
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This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup
"You want Tikhon and Arianna on your team. They are A++ hustlers that will walk through walls and put in hundreds hours of work on your toughest problem. There are 43 investors in Simple Contacts, Tikhon and Arianna are my first calls."
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Dogecoin and the Appeal of Small Numbers
Dogecoin is a unique phenomenon in the fascinating world of cryptocurrencies. It’s barely six weeks old, and as I write this post its network has more computing power than any other cryptocurrency except for Bitcoin. It made headlines this weekend when its community raised enough money to send the Jamaican bobsled…
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How Jason Bourne Stores His Bitcoin
If you want to invest in bitcoin for the long-haul, you should address the thorny issue of how best to store them. Since people love stealing bitcoins from others more than just about anything else in this world, all storage systems must first and foremost:
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Account hijacking on MtGox
If it wasn't MtGox I wouldn't even mention it — XSS/fixation/etc are web sec routines, and are not worth a blog post. But it *is* MtGox. W...
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Ethereum: A Turing-Complete Cryptocurrency
A full overview of what Ethereum is, how it works, what it does and how to start using or building on it. Explained in simple terms.
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Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics
There’s an agenda there, and it’s a bad one.
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Bit gold (2005)
A long time ago I hit upon the idea of bit gold. The problem, in a nutshell, is that our money currently depends on trust in a third party ...
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Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currency
So it’s a scam, and you’ll lose all your money, but on the plus side, you’ll have helped make the only habitable planet we have uninhabitable.
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Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
Back to: Trust Me (I'm a kettle) | Forward to: Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
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Bitcoin Private Key Necromancy
tl;dr: https://github.com/pierce403/keyhunter ~ The Longer Version ~ A few weeks ago, a friend came to me with a problem. Way back...
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