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Displaying all articles tagged:
Cryptocurrency
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July 16, 2019
The Senate Hates Facebook’s Cryptocurrency
A show of bipartisan dislike characterized today’s Banking Committee hearings on Libra. Facebook might be okay with that.
By
Max Read
the top line
June 25, 2019
Stephen Moore’s New Crypto Start-up Is Dumb Even by Crypto Start-up Standards
The conservative commentator and failed Fed nominee’s business partner describes the plan, such as it is.
By
Josh Barro
life in pixels
June 18, 2019
Facebook’s New Competition: The U.S. Dollar
Facebook just introduced Libra, a new cryptocurrency designed to blow up the global financial system.
By
Max Read
bitcoin
June 11, 2019
Rick Santorum Is Getting Into Bitcoin for Catholics
It should have been called “Vaticoin,” if you ask me.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
goatse
Feb. 7, 2019
Goatse Is Now a Cryptocurrency Stunt
The site cribs from the Million Dollar Homepage playbook to rake in Ethereum cryptocurrency.
By
Brian Feldman
crypto
Dec. 17, 2018
Bath Salts to Bitcoin: John McAfee’s Bizarre Crypto Hustle
How the early internet guru turned international fugitive became crypto’s spokesman.
By
Jeff Wise
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Apr. 18, 2018
Bitcoin Criminal Escapes Prison, Flees on Plane With Prime Minister
He managed to get out of prison and make it to Sweden.
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Brian Feldman
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Feb. 7, 2018
How to Make $6,500 by Pretending to Be Elon Musk on Twitter
It pays to be @elonnmuusk.
By
Jake Swearingen
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Jan. 29, 2018
A Blockchain-for-Vegetables Start-up Website Was Replaced With the Word ‘Penis’
This week’s weirdest cryptocurrency scam doesn’t even appear to have made money.
By
Brian Feldman
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Jan. 25, 2018
Katy Perry Is Into Cryptocurrency Now
Just keep hodling.
By
Brian Feldman
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Jan. 17, 2018
The Rise and Fall of BitConnect, the Sketchiest Crypto Exchange
Even in the somewhat shady world of cryptocurrency, BitConnect stood out as being particularly sketchball.
By
Jake Swearingen
Jan. 12, 2018
Kentucky Is the First State to Enact Medicaid Work Requirements
The state estimates that the change will result in 95,000 fewer people on Medicaid.
By
Adam K. Raymond
Jan. 11, 2018
Miami Bitcoin Conference No Longer Accepting Bitcoin Payment
The cryptocurrency is too much of a pain.
By
Adam K. Raymond
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Jan. 4, 2018
The Pickax Sellers of the Bitcoin Gold Rush
There’s money to be made in bitcoin, even if you don’t own any.
By
Yiren Lu
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Jan. 2, 2018
Google Chrome Extension ‘Archive Poster’ Secretly Mined Cryptocurrency
A Chrome extension was covertly using users’ computers to mine for the cryptocurrency monero.
By
Jake Swearingen
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Dec. 28, 2017
What Does It Mean If I’m Hodling My Shitcoins? A Glossary of Bitcoin Slang
From hodl to DYOR to shitcoin, every word you need to know to fake your way through a bitcoin conversation.
By
Jeff Koyen
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Dec. 28, 2017
How Bitcoin Got Here: A Mostly Complete Timeline of Bitcoin’s Highs and Lows
From the infamous 10,000-bitcoin pizza delivery to the pre-Christmas roller-coaster ride.
By
Joy Crane
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Dec. 27, 2017
6 People on How They Spent Their Bitcoin Fortunes
Rent, student loans, private-school tuition, designer furniture — and, yes, a special blue laser.
By
Margaret Rhodes
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Dec. 27, 2017
What It’s Like to (Almost) Become a Cryptocurrency Millionaire
In search of “brownstone money” on the cryptocurrency roller coaster.
By
Jeff Koyen
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Dec. 26, 2017
Where Can I Actually Spend Bitcoin in New York City?
From bodegas to pizza joints to Montessori schools, here’s where you can actually spend your bitcoin (if you dare).
By
Noah Hurowitz
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Dec. 26, 2017
Do You
Really
Know What Bitcoin Is?
Here, our super-simplified explanation — and what to know about the cryptocraze roller coaster.
By
Joy Crane
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Max Read
Dec. 22, 2017
Bitcoin Is Plunging! Bitcoin Is Plunging!
Nobody could have possibly seen this coming, except almost every expert.
By
Benjamin Hart
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Dec. 22, 2017
The Great Bitcoin Freak-out Is Generating Some Great Freak-outs
Thoughts and prayers.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
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Sept. 26, 2017
You Probably Helped Someone Make Thousands While Watching
Billions
A cryptocurrency miner was briefly embedded on Showtime’s websites.
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Brian Feldman
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June 23, 2017
Ethereum Is the Hottest New Currency (and Also Maybe the Future of the Internet)
Why Ethereum is (potentially) bigger than bitcoin.
By
Yiren Lu
Mar. 28, 2014
The 5 Stages of Bitcoin Grief
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance on the crypto-currency message boards.
By
Adam K. Raymond
cryptocurrency
Feb. 8, 2014
Shibes Decline to Discuss Net Worth at Dogecoin Party
So amaze. Wow.
By
Jen Kirby
bitcoin mania
Apr. 8, 2013
Inside the Bitcoin Bubble: A Q&A With BitInstant’s Stressed-Out CEO
“I haven’t gotten any sleep.”
By
Kevin Roose