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The UK plan for Bitcoin is a step in the right direction

We are pleased to see such a measured and reasonable response from a government.

As recently as two years ago there was an open question about how governments would react to Bitcoin. Some observers warned of a coming backlash from governments attempting to quash cryptocurrency. How...

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...

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,...

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...

Should You Trust This Secretive Chinese Bitcoin Mine?

A video from Vice’s Motherboard depicts a “secretive” Bitcoin mine in China. Should we be concerned? Far from it.

This fascinating video from Vice's Motherboard has been making the rounds: The video has inspired some pointed questions along the line of "does this make you feel that Bitcoin is...