Following Silk Road's demise, some users (and even law enforcement officials) wax nostalgic about the 'original' Dread Pirate Roberts.
How alike are bitcoin and the Internet, and what conclusions can we draw from the comparison?
The organization working to create a decentralized Internet starts its native payment system with a crowd-sale starting tomorrow.
Would bitcoin benefit from having multiple extra blockchains? Two influential figures think so.
Third-party service developers want bitcoin's developers to open up the blockchain.
Is Gox moving money through the bitcoin block chain? If so, why?
Ethereum is no altcoin; it is an operating system for altcoins, say developers.
A new bitcoin service will help you settle bets, make predictions and hedge positions without human intervention.
Still can’t figure out what a bitcoin is? This simple explanation for a five-year-old may help.
This week John Law grapples with Tulip Mania, block chain graffiti and the murky world of FUD.
Researcher Sarah Meiklejohn discusses whether Silk Road's users can be prosecuted and if illegal bitcoin transactions are truly 'anonymous'.
CoinDesk interviewed a University of California researcher to talk about where bitcoins are being used and moved.
John Law ponders BTC-e's credentials, block chain security and hiding bitcoins from divorce lawyers in his weekly review.
Jeff Garzik's space nodes would 'provide stability for block chain data' and 'limit attacks on the network'.
A website that listed bitcoin private keys with corresponding public addresses has been revealed as a prank.