Tag: Bitcoin
Roger Ver or “Bitcoin Jesus” — no seriously, people call him that — gave up his US citizenship for citizenship in St Kitts and Nevis, the famous tax shelter in the West Indies. He has also offered to help any other Bitcoiner with “Passports for Bitcoin:” Having a second citizenship and passport in a stable country is now a […]
During the US Marshals’ silent auction for the $18 million bitcoins seized in the government raid of Silk Road, the US government proved they can completely screw up even the simplest of online tasks. They revealed the identities of 40 anonymous bidders by CC-ing instead of BCC-ing contacts in an email. The email in question wasn’t even that important […]
On her Twitter profile, Tatiana Moroz proudly displays the hashtags #bitcoin, #liberty, and #truth. Her most popular recording is a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War,” followed by a song with the unlikely title “Make a YouTube Video” (it’s about making a YouTube video). Also notable: “Bitcoin Jingle,” an earnest acoustic number that extols […]
“When I found out about Silk Road, I thought: ‘This is the most amazing thing that has happened in my lifetime.’ I’m sure that’s an overstatement. But I’m baffled by the Internet. It keeps throwing up amazing things,” Alex Oates tells ArsTechnica. His one man play about Silk Road will be performed at this year’s Edinburgh […]
BitCologne, a “hand crafted, high quality, men’s cologne, designed specifically for Bitcoin enthusiasts,” must be someone’s idea of a joke. But just in case, a warning: don’t wear it. BitCologne will not do anything for your “peer-to-peer interactions,” as the narrator of the video implies, nor will it convince your partner to initiate “a more […]
Last month, NASCAR- and cryptocurrency-loving Redditors raised $15,000 to fund a Doge-emblazoned race car. Sunday, the first pictures of that car hit the internet. Doge itself gets prominent placement on the car’s hood and rear, of course, but there’s a serious lack of brightly colored Comic Sans. Driver Josh Wise will run the Dogecar at the Aaron’s […]
Mtgox, or Magic the Gathering: Online Exchange — formerly the world’s largest and oldest Bitcoin exchange — has been denied bankruptcy protection by a Tokyo court, and will now apply for liquidation said its court appointed administrator Wednesday. Mtgox had been trying for civil rehabilitation — a structured means of paying off creditors while keeping […]
Bitcoin Center NYC — profiled by ANIMAL here — just announced it will host a music festival dedicated to the cryptocurrency May 3. A press release bills the event as a “celebration of humanity and music.” Why not? In a promo video above, a bunch of people dance to EDM in the Amaro-filtered sunlight, wearing shirts […]
Everyone has heard about the epic MtGox collapse and its subsequent bankruptcy. The alleged hackers made off with hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, because MtGox failed to verify transactions against the public ledger, allowing multiple withdrawals. This isn’t an isolated incident. The entire history of Bitcoin Exchanges has been […]
Is the dramatic death of bitcoin’s oldest exchange Mt.Gox and the subsequent hacking of CoinEx getting you down? Do you need a little pick-you-up to get re-inspired by the possibilities of crypto-currency? Do you live in Europe? Because we hear this Yellow Bitcoin is good stuff. (Please don’t die.) Someone from Reddit just encountered it in the restroom of a […]
