Testimony before California State Assembly
The California State Assembly’s Banking & Finance Committee invited Jerry Brito along with other experts and industry leaders to give an overview of Bitcoin technology and answer questions from policymakers. ...
Bitcoin: Our Best Tool for Privacy and Identity on the Internet
Cryptocurrencies can improve security and grant users more granular control over when and how they choose to identify themselves. Here's how.
Financial privacy is an umbrella term for both data security and privacy. We can think of security as the ability to hide information from all comers and privacy, following Nissenbaum’s...
How Bitcoin Will Change International Bank Payments
Correspondent banking can be made cheaper and faster using the type of peer-to-peer technology underlying Bitcoin.
Peer-to-peer technologies that allow parties to bypass intermediaries are bringing change, and competition, to a wide variety of industries—and banking is no exception. New companies like TransferWise and CurrencyFair, for...
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,...