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unSYSTEM conference (Vienna, 1-3 Nov)

January 20, 2013
By Amir Taaki (genjix)
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Following on from last year's bitcoin2012, the organisers have announced a new conference. unSYSTEM

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Ada Lovelace and Donald Michie

August 3, 2012
By Amir Taaki (genjix)

We are on the verge of revolution. A revolution that will make the industrial revolution seem trivial. We stand at the focus, the cumulation, the precipice, of a fundamental re-thinking of our shared social fabric. Actions today will reverberate for centuries. Technologies like bitcoin...

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How to Counterfeit Bitcoins

July 10, 2012
By Donald Norman
How to Counterfeit Bitcoins

You can’t. Bitcoins simply cannot be counterfeited. However, paper money can and few people realise the following two truths. 1) Governments have perilously tenuous grips at controling counterfeiting operations. 2) A single successful counterfeiting operation can wreak havoc and destabilise even the most developed...

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Jimmy Carr, taxes and Bitcoin

June 24, 2012
By Andrew Williams
Jimmy Carr, taxes and Bitcoin

As Jimmy Carr comes under media pressure for engaging in legal yet possibly unethical practices of tax evasion, we examine how bitcoin will have an equalising effect on the...

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Using Memes to explain Bitcoin

Using Memes to explain Bitcoin

I created this slideshow to help explain my “Second Bitcoin Whitepaper” to a non-technical audience.

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Bitcoin euro stories are exaggerated

June 14, 2012
By Amir Taaki (genjix)
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Bitcoin this week has seen a sleuth of media articles regarding Bitcoin euro volume: ZDNet: Bitcoin safer than the euro? Motherboard: With Euro Instability, Can Bitcoin Now Compete with...

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Bitcoin intro and talks in Berlin (11th May at 20:00)

May 8, 2012
By Amir Taaki (genjix)

c-base is holding a day on p2p technologies on the 11th. From 20:00 will be the section on Bitcoin. If you want to do a talk, then email me...

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Market volatility has gone down

May 5, 2012
By Amir Taaki (genjix)
price

Here is a graph of the historical market volume. If we compare this to the historical price, we see there is not really any causal link between them. Therefore,...

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Patronage, Bitcoin and Scientific Music: My Story

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PayPal, well renowned as a major headache for many online retailers, has been less than ideal for this business model, in part due to their percentage cut and questionable...

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Sex and the Bitcoin

April 29, 2012
By Amir Taaki (genjix)
sexy

“The future of sexuality is here, and boy it’s predictably sad and weird: girls stripping for Bitcoin tips, a virtual currency that’s not really worth anything. Start mining yer...

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Off-Planet Economics

April 28, 2012
By Sy Nejem
eris

With the recent announcement of a potential joint-effort to mine asteroids, in combination with the acceleration in efforts toward commercial space-flight, some interesting tertiary considerations arise – especially in...

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Gold is a physical element, Bitcoin is an abstract protocol

April 27, 2012
By Sy Nejem
Gold is a physical element, Bitcoin is an abstract protocol

There’s been all kinds of speculation about what Bitcoin is and how it works. What about where it fits, in our insane, worldwide dynamic?

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