Monthly Archives: February 2020

When Jack Dorsey founded Square in February 2009, Bitcoin was all of one month old. In fact, Satoshi Nakamoto and Dorsey were likely laying the groundwork for their respective creations concurrently in the year prior. Ten years later, the two would converge in what now seems like an inevitable collision.  Square launched its Venmo-like payment…

Monetarily, free and open-source software (FOSS) has always been at a disadvantage to proprietary software. It’s easier to solicit funding for a centralized project than for a decentralized one, not least of all because companies necessitate business models. Conversely, funding (and the agendas that often come with it) seems almost anathema to FOSS projects. At…

This is a sponsored article provided by World Markets. Looking for the next best thing to invest in is difficult — sometimes you get in too late and miss the opportunity of a lifetime. Trading in the cryptocurrency market can be extremely profitable if done correctly, but it requires a deep understanding of the market…

The best nonprofits and charities are efficient, effective and engaging. They channel donations to where they’re most needed, they make significant improvements to people’s lives, and they inspire donors and supporters to continue giving. Achieving all of these goals is a challenge for even the largest organization, and that’s why I founded my own Bitcoin…

Over the last five years, through the peaks and throes of bitcoin’s price volatility, Paxful has grown steadily.  The global peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace’s main success has been in fueling a million dollar remittance and payment market for under and unbanked Africans in countries like Nigeria and Kenya. Added to that mission is Paxful’s philanthropic initiative,…

December 1, 2017: “Bitcoin breaks $10k” rolls through your newsfeed. You mined bitcoin back in 2010–2011 but forgot about it, opting to focus on your career. As you read the news article, you finally comprehend the surreal notion that you are now a multimillionaire. It sounds like a fantasy but it has happened (maybe even…

At first glance, bitcoin and skateboarding might have as little in common as those rare Buffalo nickels your one unmarried uncle collects and any other extreme sport, like snowboarding.  But the two have more in kind than you might think. Both highly stigmatized during their formative years (and even still), both intuitive approaches to old…

On November 22, 2011, a post appeared on bitcointalk.org with the following proposition: What followed was a five-year experiment in community fundraising, with the goal of educating charities about the benefits of accepting bitcoin as donation payments.  The brainchild of Phinnaeus Gage, Bitcoin100’s original concept was fairly simple: Get 100 supporters to pledge (at least)…

Microsoft accepts bitcoin. Nobody cares. Why? Because if you want people to give up their bitcoin, you’d better have a damn good reason. Microsoft and other companies that accept BTC don’t currently have that. When you currently spend BTC on something from Microsoft, you aren’t getting any additional financial benefit of using that payment method…