Bitcoin May Be What Gets Us Real Net Neutrality
The recent net neutrality victory at the FCC is not a silver bullet. This article originally appeared in WIRED.
The recent neutrality victory at the FCC is not a silver bullet. We can expect costly court challenges, complicated enforcement, and the risks that come with entrusting a large government...
Apple Pay isn’t enough to fix a broken payment system
High levels of fraud show us that slick apps are only as good as the payment system they rely on.
The Wall Street Journal has taken note of an alarming level of fraud in Apple Pay transactions: [I]t’s not ‘an anomaly’ to see fraud accounting for about 6% of Apple Pay transactions,...
Report: Bitcoin enables unprecedented financial privacy and security
Traditional electronic payments require that we give too much access to our personal information.
The past year was frightening for consumers and retailers alike. Data breaches at major companies led to huge caches of personally identifying information becoming available to malicious actors. Breaches can...
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency: Law should adapt to remain relevant
Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry is right to argue that the letter of the law may have to change in the face of technological advancement in order to carry out the spirit of the law.
Many of the laws and regulations that affect open payments systems like Bitcoin were written at a time when only closed proprietary systems existed. As a result, some of the...
Video: Can Bitcoin Feed a Family?
Bitcoin remittances can help workers send more money to their families.
Learn Liberty, a project of the Institute for Humane Studies, has begun an effort to educate students about Bitcoin. They will be offering a one week course that examines the technology’s fundamentals,...
Steady Sentiment and the Problem of Scams
A lot of people distrust Bitcoin. We think we know why.
Today we release another month of data in Coin Center’s ongoing Bitcoin Public Sentiment Survey. The survey, now six-months-running, measures American attitudes toward Bitcoin using a statistically sound sampling technique, the...
Video: Three Things to Know About Bitcoin
Some basic facts about the technology.
Learn Liberty, a project of the Institute for Humane Studies, has begun an effort to educate students about Bitcoin. They will be offering a one week course that examines the technology’s fundamentals,...
CSBS Virtual Currency Framework Comment
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors has issued a forward thinking draft model state regulatory framework for virtual currency activities
On December 16, 2014, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors issued for public comment a draft model state regulatory framework for virtual currency activities. We congratulate the Conference and the...
Foreign Affairs Cryptocurrency Policy Forum
Foreign Affairs, the distinguished journal published by the Council on Foreign Relations, held a forum in New York City for the technical, legal and political community to come together and discuss cryptocurrency.
In this panel Jerry Brito is joined on stage by representatives from the cryptocurrency industry and the Treasury Department to discuss integrating the technology with mainstream systems. For more information about this event...
The BitLicense Needs a Safe Harbor
Sign this letter to tell the NYDFS that reasonable safe harbors foster innovation.
Following extensive public comment, the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) issued its revised “BitLicense” proposals last week in hopes of taming our newest wild west: digital currencies. The...