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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...