Back in 2012, the FBI published a now-infamous report on Bitcoin. It called Bitcoin a “venue for individuals to generate, transfer, launder, and steal illicit funds with some anonymity.” Not…
One of the sites hijacked to mine cryptocurrency in the recent script-replacement hack was the website of the Swedish Police Force. This merits a more discussion; a lot more. As…
It's no secret that personal data has become the key commodity of the online business world. The Internet giants - Facebook, Google, etc. - all provide their services "free", but…
Bitcoin's value is an illusion of money. But so is all governmental money, all central-bank money. All governments always knew that the value of money is an illusion: they could…
The European Union is preparing measures that would freeze savers' assets in banks when the solvency of the bank is in question, to prevent a "run on the bank" and…
A new bill, S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017, would make it a money laundering offense to cross the American border with more than…
Private Internet Access was one of the first VPN providers to accept Bitcoin as payment for our VPN service back in early 2011 on the #Bitcoin-OTC channel on IRC. Since…
As you may have noticed, there's a lot of interest in bitcoin at the moment. According to one analysis, a key factor driving the digital currency to record highs is…
The American SEC, which oversees financial institutions, has rejected a bid to create a traditional trading fund (an ETF) based on bitcoin. The trading fund was the initiative of the…
Cryptocurrency will cripple governmental ability to collect taxes, and they won't see it coming. When it's already happened, expect major changes to take place in how society is organized on…