Earlier this month, Liberty Blitzkrieg helped introduce the world to fiatleak.com, a site that shows real time trades in Bitcoin by region. The site was subsequently highlighted by the New York Times a week later, which I found to be surprisingly fast. Well there’s a lot more out there beyond Bitcoin, and I’ve stumbled across … Read more
The following article was published in the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional, and it appears to imply that the struggling South American nation has agreed to sell or swap the gold it still holds overseas at the Bank of England to Goldman Sachs. This is one of the major problems with gold. Despite what some may … Read more
The “authorities” can shut down website after website, but the tide of new technology and the human spirit itself cannot and will not be overcome. This is the hard lesson that statists and collectivists will be learning the hard way in the years to come, as decentralization and freedom stage a gigantic, peaceful revolution. A revolution … Read more
3D-Printing, along with Bitcoin and crowd-funding have been three of the primary disruptive and positive innovations/technologies that have come to the fore in 2013, which have the potential to change human existence in extraordinarily positive ways. Although much of my attention on 3D-printing this year has been focused on the decentralized production of firearms, the … Read more
I recently mentioned Tor in my article highlighting The Silk Road, the online illegal substances marketplace that you must run Tor to access and where the only currency accepted is Bitcoin. As we have seen with statistics showing tremendous growth in alternative search engines, technology users worldwide have indeed adjusted their habits in the wake … Read more
An entrepreneur as professionally careful as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn’t trust instant messaging services. Forget phones or Skype. At one point during our eight-month preinterview courtship, I offer to meet him at an undisclosed location outside the United States. “Meeting in person is out of the question,” he says. “I don’t meet in person … Read more
His show may be called Let’s Talk Bitcoin, but in this segment we didn’t talk Bitcoin at all! Rather, we focused on the key distinction between protecting “acts of journalism” versus protecting specific “journalists.” We also discuss decentralization, Bradley Manning’s trial, the Amash amendment, and much, much more. I had a lot of great feedback … Read more
One of the best parts about the Inside Bitcoins Conference in NYC last week was the opportunity to meet so many interesting, dedicated and fascinating minds. Adam Levine, host of Let’s Talk Bitcoin is one of them. This is how I described Adam in my conference summary: Adam B. Levine – YouTube is Broken Adam … Read more
I’m not sure that the NSA would find great interest in analyzing my life and conversations. However I do like the idea of being protected and of having control. And I love the idea that Plug can bring this control back to non-geek people. – Severin Marcombes, CEO of Cloud Guys, maker of “Plug” One of … Read more
In case you missed it, last Sunday German artist Oliver Bienkowski projected a giant image of Kim Dotcom on the U.S. embassy in Berlin coupled with the phrase “United Stasi of America.” The entire thing lasted about 30 seconds and was extremely good natured and humorous. However, it seems German “authorities” don’t appreciate being out-Stasied by the … Read more