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Cryptocurrency

How cryptocurrency will cripple today’s governments – and they won’t see it coming

Updated on Jan 30, 2024 by Rick Falkvinge

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…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, Governments

He’s Alive: Julian Assange Used the Bitcoin Blockchain for Proof of Life

Updated on Aug 4, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange featured the Bitcoin Blockchain in his most recent public appearance, a live-streamed Reddit AMA hosted by Twitch.tv. The Bitcoin Blockchain is the ultimate timestamping software, and…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News

Old lady denied exchanging life savings in old banknotes for new issue; could not prove innocence of money; dies

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Rick Falkvinge

Ethel Hülst had saved for some old-age luxury all her life, cash-in-mattress style, and wanted to exchange her old-issue-note savings for new-issue banknotes. Faced with demands of proving where her…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News

The war on cash being justified as “necessary against organized crime” is the worst excuse ever

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

There is a "war on cash" going on from the central banks, trying to reduce the usage (and personal storage) of cash. This is something that makes sense as a…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, Governments

Now that PayPal has left Turkey, Turks should use Bitcoin

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The nearly 75 million residents of Turkey will be unable to use PayPal to pay for online goods starting June 6th, 2016. PayPal’s decision to pull out of Turkey resulted…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Governments

The DAO raises $100 million: How the old world really can’t comprehend the new world

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

The crowdfunding to the investment company "The DAO", which has exceeded one hundred million US dollars and counting, has the old world in confusion. "How can something leaderless run a…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News

The Death of the Ukranian Bitcoin License

Updated on Nov 18, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Innovation, more often than not, comes from the bottom. A want arises in the community and against all institutionalized pressures to the contrary, said want eventually makes its way into…

Categories: Cryptocurrency

Surveillance is Power: The Information Advantage


Updated on Jan 25, 2024 by rasengan

The following statements are opinions of my own. "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight.  Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Surveillance

Bitcoin, Taxation, and the Systemic Necessity of Allowing Privacy

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

As you start using bitcoin, you start questioning the nature of money - or the nature of central bank money, anyway. If you go deeper down the rabbit hole, you…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News

After Paris Attack Where Terrorists Used Cleartext Communications and Credit Cards, Police State Hawks Demand a Ban of Encryption and Bitcoin

Updated on Jul 27, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

It didn't take long after the Paris terror attacks for police state hawks to demand more police powers. Bans on encryption have been suggested, as well as regulation of bitcoin…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, Encryption, General Privacy News
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