An exciting new service lets private individuals buy bitcoin directly from the bitcoin mines for the first time. The obvious advantage of doing so is the accompanying gains in privacy:…
The Swedish Tax Authority has demanded the full customer transaction history, specifically including customers' wallet addresses, from the small Swedish bitcoin exchange BTC-X. This demand comes without any individual suspicion…
We've learned the hard way over the decades that if you don't have physical control of your data, it's not your data. With the new bank account confiscation rules coming…
There is an alarming lack of understanding of basic information hygiene among people at large. In the next decade, this is going to come back to bite quite a few…
Now that Bitcoin recently crossed the $1,000.00 threshold for the first time in its short life, a discussion on the regulatory status of Bitcoin in the United States ("U.S.") is…
Bitcoin heralds great promise to break that symbiosis between banks and governments that enable erosion of our financial privacy. But in the absence of banks, bitcoin comes with its own…
At Private Internet Access, we’ve always been very interested in forward-thinking payment methods. We were one of the first VPN providers to officially accept Bitcoin (BTC/XBT), and additionally, we were…
TL;DR: Our Vanilla Forum installation was hacked, but our VPN system was completely unaffected. Forum users should change their passwords if they are used on other sites. Today, on November 18, 2013, on or about 5AM, we discovered a message posted…
Throughout the western world, politicians appear keen on eliminating cash as a concept. There are many reasons on the surface - preventing armored car robberies, combating organized crime, making money…
We understand that there have been a number of questions discussed regarding the recent disclosure of the NSA's PRISM program. A number of our customers have expressed concern about whether…