THE BITCOIN SAGA CONTINUES
THERE’S NOTHING SIMPLE about the virtual currency Bitcoin. And there’s one helluva saga evolving. “The Satoshi Affair,” by Andrew O’Hagan, occupies 17 oversize pages of the London Review of Books, … Continue reading
THE ULBRICHT CAPER
FROM TIME to time, stories on the electronic currency Bitcoin appear in the media. On May 2, 2016, for example, BBC News reported that “Australian Craig Wright Claims to be Bitcoin … Continue reading
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A BITCOIN?
THE TERM “Bitcoin,” with upper-case B, has been defined as a person-to-person network of payment using open-source electronic protocol. I think of it as electronic kin to the earliest letters … Continue reading