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Money & Tech attended the sold-out CoinSummit event in San Francisco on March 25th & 26th, and interviewed over 20 industry leaders and innovators. Here is a comprehensive list of those interviews, plus videos of all the event’s panels, fireside chats, and startup showcase pitches. This is your one-stop source for all things CoinSummit San Francisco. Monday 3/24 Pre-CoinSummit: Pamir
» Read more“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” Ayn Rand Sometimes our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses. In the case of Bitcoin, the decentralized nature of the network plays to both sides, creating great freedoms, which in turn create great opportunities for rogue players. If you’re one of the “76 percenters” who don’t
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MtGox will be remembered in the archives of Bitcoin much like Pets.com and Webvan are memorialized in the annals of Internet lore. Conceived in 2007, MtGox was an abbreviation for “Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange”. That’s right. MtGox was created so users could trade Magic cards like one trades stocks, only later being repurposed to the Bitcoin exchange of recent
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1 The importance of "permissionless innovation" The thing that is most extraordinary about the internet is the way it enables permissionless innovation. This stems from two epoch-making design decisions made by its creators in the early 1970s: that there would be no central ownership or control; and that the network would not be optimised for any particular application: all it
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With its 25th birthday coming up in March, the internet is the most popular millennial in America. New data from the Pew Research Internet Project illustrates America’s embrace of – and increasing reliance on – the internet since the 1990s. More than half of Americans (53%) admit they would find the internet “very hard” to give up, compared with 38%
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