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Bitcoin: Bubble or Boom?
Lately, I’ve been receiving phone calls, text messages, and emails from friends, family, and clients who have been watching the price of the peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin skyrocket over the past few...
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Bitcoin: What Has Changed?
Since my last post about Bitcoin, the price of one bitcoin has plunged from highs of around $240.00USD to $69.98 at the time I am writing this on April 16, 2013. The day that the panic-selling began...
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An Open Letter on Computer Security After Bitcoin2013
I had a great time this past weekend at Bitcoin2013. I have much to write about and will be sharing some of my best experiences and emerging ideas from the conference in a future blog post. Today, I...
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Avoiding Regulatory Traps In The P2P Economy
I try to avoid political talk on this blog, but in this day and age when overtly authoritarian governments are controlling every aspect of people’s lives the topic is unfortunately impossible to avoid...
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Discussing Personal Clouds on Let’s Talk Bitcoin and Porc Therapy
I recently sat down with Adam B. Levine, co-host of the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast series, for a wide-ranging one-on-one discussion about privacy, trust, identity, and personal clouds. At PorcfestX, I...
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Experiments in Cryptocurrency Sustainability
This was originally published on the Let’s Talk Bitcoin blog. One of the criticisms of Bitcoin I often hear from environmentally conscious people concerns the enormous amount of energy that goes into...
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Onename.io Proof & Public Key Change
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The purpose of this message is to prove that I, John Light, created the profile at: https://www.onename.io/lightcoin and further authorize that the...
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Review: Cryptoeconomicon and the O’Reilly Bitcoin Conference
From January 26 – 29 2015, I attended two conferences: Cryptoeconomicon, “the first conference devoted explicitly to the nascent field of Cryptoeconomics,” and O’Reilly Bitcoin and the Blockchain...
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P2P Connects Us Episode 10 – Richard Myers
Direct mp3 link [right click, “save as”] On today’s episode we’re going to be talking about the immortal Pirate Bay’s revival, Project Maelstrom and the new internets, okTurtles relaunch and the...
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