There are two kinds of people who label bitcoin a ponzi. The first group is made up of salty nocoiners who launch the word ponzi as an insu...

These days it seems that everyone is a critic of anti-money laundering rules. In this post I want to try and defend our current approach to ...

A new type of crime has recently emerged: big-ticket repeatable ransomware . Bitcoin is the chosen payments method for ransomware gangs. But...

Metal scraps from a soldier’s pouch found at the Late Bronze Age battlefield of Tollensee Valley ( source ) 1) Last month I wrote about hac...

Bitcoin mining farm ( via CoinDesk ) There are two extreme theories about cryptocurrency energy consumption, both of them bitterly opposed t...

Having just emerged from the fiasco of last year's coin shortage (which I wrote about here and here ), the U.S. Mint has a new problem ...

 Government's can't regulate DeFi, can they? It's too wild and uncontrollable. DeFi, or decentralized finance, is the set of ana...

Dogecoin makes us all shake our heads. Introduced in December 2013 as a joke, Dogecoin is now worth over $50 billion, more than Ford Motor C...

Since mid-March, the stock of U.S. banknotes has surged by $45 billion. That's a 2.1% increase in just 30-days.   This jump surprised me...