Where Mainstream Media Gets Bitcoin Wrong
Enrique Warren
Bitcoin has a media problem. Or, perhaps, the media has a Bitcoin problem. Mainstream media has often framed Bitcoin with the same scandalous curiosity that may publicize a troubled former…
Enrique Warren
CoinJoin, Dark Wallet and More Private Bitcoin
CoinJoin. Trustless mixing. Anonymity. Bitcoin Magazine’s September 2013 cover — all black with hints of golden fingerprints — needed only four words to announce a powerful new privacy tool. At…
Welcome to Bitcoin 2020! – Bitcoin Magazine
Update: Following the rapid escalation of COVID-19 in California and worldwide, Bitcoin 2020 has been postponed to Q3 of 2020. Read our official update for more information. Bitcoin Magazine is…
How Lightning Network Messaging Enables Privacy
“…using a network of…micropayment channels, Bitcoin can scale to billions of transactions per day with the computational power available on a modern desktop computer today. Sending many payments inside a…
CryptoMining.Tools Is Building the Bitcoin Mining Community – Bitcoin Magazine
This is a sponsored article provided by CryptoMining.Tools. At CryptoMining.Tools, aspiring and established bitcoin miners can easily and securely find all of the help they need to not only start…
Part 2 – Bitcoin Magazine
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we focused on an introduction to blockchain analysis of publicly available Lightning Network payment requests or “invoices” that were made during the second…
Bitcoin Is the Technology of Dissent That Secures Individual Liberties – Bitcoin Magazine
The U.K. hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s U.S. extradition on the week of February 24, 2020, presented a test of Western liberal democracy. The indictment of Assange under the…
How Tor Supports Dissent as a Human Right – Bitcoin Magazine
Around the world, the human rights to privacy and freedom are compromised online. With the unending attacks on encryption and the exploitation of our personal information, it can be easy…
The Promise of Mesh Networks
“What happens if the internet goes down?” You’ve heard it, I’ve heard it — we’ve all heard the refrain. It’s a favorite of FUDster journalists like Frances Coppola and David…
Amir Taaki: Bitcoin, Syria, Dissident Technology
Amir Taaki was one of Bitcoin’s first-ever dedicated developers and perhaps the one most infamously focused on maintaining privacy and freedom from authority. In 2014, Forbes listed Taaki on its…