Welcome to the Private Internet Access Blog

  • Paul Graham Endorses Bitcoin

    Paul Graham Endorses Bitcoin

    History is in the making.  Although this is not a major announcement pertaining to Bitcoin directly, today may be one of the most historic days in the life of the crypto currency.  Today, it was announced that YCombinator, the biggest and most well known technology incubator, has funded a Bitcoin startup. What does this mean?… Read more

  • Big Brother is Watching: 007 Style

    Big Brother is Watching: 007 Style

    If you live in the UK, as unreal as this sounds, Big Brother is coming, and he has access to see every website you’ve ever visited, if you are not using an anonymizer, such as Tor or a VPN.  Recently, the UK and David Cameron have come under scrutiny due to a backwards censorship bill.  However,… Read more

  • How to Buy Bitcoins Anonymously in the US, Instantly

    How to Buy Bitcoins Anonymously in the US, Instantly

    If CISPA or other privacy-busting legislations pass, every detail of our personal lives will be at risk – and you’ll want to buy Bitcoins for safety. Although many of our foundations are rooted in anonymity, everything we see, do and buy may soon be exposed. However, technology always evolves, and anonymity is no exception. As many already… Read more

  • Hacker News vs Slashdot – Post Mortem Analysis

    Hacker News vs Slashdot – Post Mortem Analysis

    In March, two of our articles were featured on the frontpage of both Hacker News and Slashdot.  After reading a recent post on HN with details of a post mortem analysis, we realized it was important that we share a bit of our analytics as well.  We logged into our analytics account, and we were… Read more

  • Bitcoin War: The First Real Threat to Bitcoin?

    Bitcoin War: The First Real Threat to Bitcoin?

    For most Bitcoiners, it is a well known fact that there is a significant risk in the decentralized peer-to-peer currency pertaining to hashing power.  In order to maintain a perfectly democratic internet currency, no one single entity should ever have control of 51%, or greater, of the total network hashing power. Today, one of our… Read more

  • Your ISP is Going to Spy on You Starting July 12, 2012

    Your ISP is Going to Spy on You Starting July 12, 2012

    Your ISP is going to spy on you starting July 12, 2012. One year ago, the RIAA and the MPAA organized a project with the largest internet service providers in the US to begin monitoring their customer’s internet activity.  This monitoring was introduced as a joint coalition to combat piracy.  A list of providers that… Read more