The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…
First Mover: Bitcoin Steady as Trump Tweets, and…
Chinese tech companies were once seen as copycats of their Western peers: Alibaba was a knockoff of eBay and Baidu imitated Google. More recently, Chinese firms like TikTok and Huawei have established such dominant international…
Amid US-China Tech War, Can Neo’s DeFi Stack…
Chinese tech companies were once seen as copycats of their Western peers: Alibaba was a knockoff of eBay and Baidu imitated Google. More recently, Chinese firms like TikTok and Huawei have established such dominant international…
The Long and Winding Story of Silk Road,…
This article originally appeared in Bitcoin Magazine‘s 10th anniversary print edition. Silk Road, the online marketplace named for the historic network of trade routes established during the Han Dynasty, went live in February 2011. Its…
How Do Blockchain Projects Cultivate a Star-like Following?
Some crypto projects fail to lift off. Others generate enormous traction and turn into industry’s rock stars. How do they do it? Leading crypto start-ups don’t get into community-building for the warm, fuzzy feelings. They…
Ecological Sanity Is Compatible With Human Freedom
In the early days, Bitcoin proposed a simple model of how the world could be transformed: The free market was going to produce inflation-proof money with strong privacy features, which could be used to avoid…
The Bitcoiners Who Live ‘Permanently Not There’
Katie Ananina is building her citadel, and selling others on the dream. For the past year, the Russian emigre has jumped among the U.S. cities of Miami, Houston, San Francisco and Denver, plus Puerto Rico,…
$424 Million and Numismatic Value: There’s Only 20,000…
For many years now physical bitcoins have been a very popular trend, but one specific type called the Casascius physical bitcoin collection has intrigued people for years. Last December, someone redeemed a 100 BTC Casascius…
The COVID-19 E-Commerce Boom Hasn’t Trickled Down to…
Despite the COVID-19 e-commerce boom, bitcoin is hardly seeing more merchant usage as a transactional currency than it was five years ago. “We’ve been doing this for six years and it’s still very rough around…
Why Binance.com.au is Now Delivering Flowers
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has lost a dispute over the domain name ‘binance.com.au’ to an Australian florist trading under the name Binancé. On June 17, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) denied a complaint filed…
21 Million BTC: How PayPal Active Users Underscores…
An over 300 million active register accounts on PayPal highlights just how important digital scarcity is to Bitcoin’s value. The enormous installed userbase suddenly having access to cryptocurrencies could be a major boost to adoption.…
‘Risky’ Tokenized Real Estate Platform Hits New Heights…
U.S. tokenized real estate platform RealT hit record highs in sales and new users after it turned to crypto-only transactions, following a ban by payments platform Paypal in April. The Ethereum-based startup tokenizes and sells…
Blockchain Bites: Hyperledger Makes Inroads, Bitcoin Gets ‘Harder’…
There's a lot of action happening in enterprise-grade blockchains. Big Blue's preferred chain, Hyperledger, is being tapped by three energy grid operators, a new consortium to establish digital identities for public and private organizations and…