Category Archives: Bitcoin
BitSim – Bitcoin Between SIM and Phone
Check out BitSim, a Zero Footprint Platform that works by interposing an ultra thin chip between the SIM card and any SMS-capable phone. What does it do? Bitcoin, smart contracts, all encrypted over SMS without carrier permission. Providing NFC and … Continue reading
Canadian Senate on Bitcoin with Andreas Antonopoulos
If you are still struggling to understand Bitcoin, put aside the time to watch this lesson from the master. There seems to be universal agreement that Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the most capable spokesperson and most engaging advocate for Bitcoin and blockchain technology in the … Continue reading
How Green is Bitcoin?
In a detailed paper, Hass McCook has published his research into the relative sustainability of Bitcoin, printed money, credit cards denominated in fiat currency and industrial gold mining. While it’s understood that running Bitcoin mining hardware consumes significant electricity for … Continue reading
Bitcoin The Rise of Cryptocurrency
Sydney startup incubator and Co-working space Tank Stream Labs kindly hosted a recent panel discussion on Bitcoin and the Rise of Cryptocurrency. The spark talking point is the following broad question. How will the rise of crypto-currencies, such as bitcoin, unify … Continue reading
Video – Bitcoin Professionals 101
Bitcoin Professionals meetup is a monthly session organised by Reuben Bramanathan and Jason Williams in the Sydney offices of law firm McCullough Robertson. Each month there are presenters and this month I delivered a Bitcoin 101 talk to help everyone … Continue reading
Me Interviewed on Bondi Beach Radio
Following my talk at the Bitcoin Professionals Meetup this week, I was invited in to the studios at Bondi Beach Radio to go into a little more detail and chat about some of the interesting side topics to the current … Continue reading
Bitcoin and the History of Money
http://youtu.be/IP0jCjyrew8
Expect Poor Imitations
Do you remember when the internet started to become part of the general public’s awareness? The jokes, the way people would throw in a emphatic “dot com” suffix to any phrase that was worthy for being tainted with nerd stink. … Continue reading
Bitcoin-Obsessed Block Zombie
Is that you with red, drowsy eyes from all-night Bitcoin research, obsessively consuming all available cryptocurrency info, boring everyone around you to death while moaning, soullessly blockchains… blockchains! Yes? Then you too are a Block Zombie. How did this happen? Prior to “infection” you were … Continue reading