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jean lievens
June 3, 2014 5:49 PM
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Economist Mark T. Williams' famous $10 Bitcoin price prediction has been proven ridiculously and laughably wrong. Has he changed his mind about Bitcoin?
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jean lievens
May 26, 2014 1:51 PM
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Ryan Walker is an independent consultant and cryptocurrency enthusiast based out of Denver, Colorado. Here, he joins the dots between Darwin’s theory of evolution, fiat money and the rise of cryptocurrencies.
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jean lievens
May 13, 2014 1:11 PM
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Cryptocurrencies are undoubtedtly innovative in the context of payments. But they also provide some broader lessons with relevance far beyond the financial world. Here are five things that the growth of cryptocurrencies can teach us about the future of innovation:
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jean lievens
May 11, 2014 2:59 PM
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The ultimate philanthropic potential of digital currency may lie in the developing world, where high exchange rates, bank fees and inflation can dilute the buying power of international donors.
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jean lievens
May 5, 2014 5:23 PM
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Peter Smith of Blockchain.info and Susan Athey of Stanford University took the stage atDisrupt NY to update everyone on the state of bitcoin. In the last few months, Mt.Gox collapsed, bitcoin has lost half of its value. Can bitcoin survive following the current reality check?
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jean lievens
April 24, 2014 4:10 PM
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Boston magazine's Boston Daily (blog) MIT Groups Insist that Bitcoin Is the Way of the Future Boston magazine's Boston Daily (blog) On May 3, HackMIT, the MIT Bitcoin Club, and the College Cryptocurrency Network will welcome a panel of experts...
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jean lievens
April 15, 2014 2:32 PM
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Ethereum is a platform that makes it possible for any developer to write and distribute next-generation decentralized applications.
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jean lievens
April 9, 2014 3:12 PM
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Growing Wall Street interest in bitcoin is likely to fuel a rebound in the price of the digital currency, according to panelists at the Inside Bitcoins conference.
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jean lievens
April 6, 2014 11:49 AM
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• Hull city council has joined forces with a cryptocurrency developer to launch a bitcoin spinoff designed solely for use in the city. HullCoin is being "mined" by the council, and will be awarded as a reward for voluntary work, as well as given out by food banks with aid packages. The aim is to spark the creation of a local economy, similar in scope to the Brixton Pound in south London.
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jean lievens
March 30, 2014 12:50 PM
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David Gilson reports on the very first UK local government operated cryptocurrency, HullCoin.
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jean lievens
March 29, 2014 1:59 AM
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Bitcoin isn’t just for buying and selling cupcakes and cameras anymore.
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jean lievens
March 19, 2014 2:27 AM
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Dogecoin-mania continues unabated. The following short article, reposted from Ihavebitcoins.com, argues that it could lead to a surge in the gift economy. Read on…
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jean lievens
March 16, 2014 5:36 PM
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We are all familiar with the following situation; you’re planning a trip with your fiancé for the coming weekend, you want to know which is the best Italian restaurant to go. Since you believe in the power of the crowd, you tweet and ask your followers “What is the best Italian restaurant to go to?”. And what happens almost immediately? Dora tweets a suggestion for you, describing the delicious salmon pizza she just had at Marco’s Trattoria, which is to die for.
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jean lievens
May 26, 2014 2:36 PM
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About a year and a half ago I gave a talk in London titled “The future of Bitcoin and rebuilding the financial system”. Although there were only about a hundred or so people in the room, that talk went on to be watched nearly 36,000 times online. Huge numbers of people have been inspired by how Satoshi planned years ahead; how he didn’t stop at merely moving money around, but went on to imagine astonishing new capabilities …. and plant the seeds of their implementation in the Bitcoin protocol.
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jean lievens
May 20, 2014 3:20 PM
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For a while now, society’s renewed interest in transparency and decentralization has been manifesting itself in myriad ways across Western culture, and it is finally hitting financial markets too.
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jean lievens
May 12, 2014 1:50 PM
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The top 5 most capitalized cryptocurrencies compared. Which cryptocurrency is the best? The answer may surprise you.
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jean lievens
May 5, 2014 5:25 PM
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Josh Wise, the car’s driver, qualified for the Aaron’s 499 race in Talladega but needed the money for the sponsorship. The Dogecoin community reached out to Wise and raised more than $55,000 to pay for the doge-wrapped car. Like many people, Wise had never heard of the cryptocurrency — instead, the Doge community found him.
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jean lievens
May 2, 2014 3:10 PM
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I still believe that Bitcoin is a good idea, despite some flaws in the original implementation that are coming to light, which make it less than ideal for use as a general purpose currency.
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jean lievens
April 22, 2014 6:10 PM
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“The Silicon Valley ecosystem, improved supercomputing and the rise of hacker culture have changed how individuals approach traditional monetary systems”, opine the research team at Sparks & Honey. “Today, existing systems are being critically evaluated, old ideas are being re-examined, and dreamers are imagining new alternative currencies to solve our current financial issues via low and high tech experimentation.”
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jean lievens
April 15, 2014 1:17 PM
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With all the chatter over bitcoin, Dogecoin, and other players in the world of alternative currencies, Point Reyes Station resident Richard Kirschman would like to remind Bay Area residents that Marin County has had its own “altcoin” since long before it was trendy.
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jean lievens
April 8, 2014 2:34 PM
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The poll then described Bitcoin to respondents as “a new online digital currency that is not connected to any particular country’s currency system and is not controlled by any government.” Then, even despite the high number who knows nothing about Bitcoin, a plurality (47 percent) said government should not allow people to use Bitcoins to purchase goods and services, while 38 percent said it should be allowed and another 14 percent don’t know.
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jean lievens
April 1, 2014 3:37 PM
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April 1, 2014 St. Louis, MO – As the first city in the world to have its own virtual currency, St. Louis is home to STLcoin, a company on the cutting edge of the virtual currency boom. In an effort to generate awareness and flex its charitable muscle, the company is donating 500,000 stlcoin units, dispersing the total to 13 nonprofit groups in the St. Louis area. These groups are:
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jean lievens
March 29, 2014 2:01 AM
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Imagine traveling back to your parents' or grandparents' young adult years and telling them that in the near future, marijuana would be legal for recreational or medical use in nearly half of the U.S., and that pot smokers would have the option of buying it with a virtual marijuana-themed currency in lieu of traditional money.
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jean lievens
March 20, 2014 4:09 PM
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Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation distributed applications.
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jean lievens
March 17, 2014 3:50 PM
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The history of the war between the techies and America's NSA over the keys to our privacy.
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