What is money? Lots of people have confidently told me that “money is the root of all evil” yet when I ask them what money is, they can’t seem to come up with an answer. Why is it that so many people seem to think that money is innately evil? Why doesn’t anyone understand what […]
Bitcoin has been dismissed by economists, news agencies, banks, politicians and countless other skeptics around the world as a Ponzi scheme, a joke, “fake money” and more. But what they all fail to realize is that bitcoin is just an open-source software that doesn’t care what they think. It is the most influential math experiment […]
In our hyper-connected tech world we have probably all heard a number of buzzwords that are related to cybercrime. Identity theft, ransomware, hacks, leaks, fraud, viruses, phishing, forgery, malware and spam are all terms that we either hear on the news or the latest primetime tv drama and that is because cybercrime is evolving at […]
Since it’s inception back in 2009, one Bitcoin has gone from being worth absolutely nothing to being worth 1/10,000 of a pizza to achieving parity with the US dollar and reaching an all-time high of $1,271 (which at the time was worth more than one troy ounce of gold – $1,201.91). It is the limited […]
Skeptics are eager to criticize bitcoin because they claim that it doesn’t have any “intrinsic value” and therefore can’t possibly be money. What they fail to realize is that bitcoin has a market utility that no other form of money in history has ever had. That’s a bold statement so let me show you why […]
Bitcoin adoption is accelerating around the world and soon there will be more smartphones than bank accounts. Tech giants like Google and Facebook have plans to speed things up by targeting emerging markets to bring over a billion new users into the internet economy. These next billion users are going to need the means to […]
If people are going to adopt bitcoin, they are going to realize an organic and natural need for it to happen. Overdraft fees are a problem for too many people across the globe. Bank Overdraft Fees Overdraft fees. It’s something all too many of us have had to deal with at our bank. We have […]
Over the past decade, Crowdfunding has grown from being a small niche community to now being one of the first places to go to for businesses, causes and projects to raise startup capital. For those of you who don’t know or understand what crowdfunding is, it is simply the idea of collecting small amounts of […]
If you do any searching, you can easily find articles about bitcoin’s risk and volatility all over the internet. I’m talking about mainstream media sources like Forbes, Wired, CNN and The Wall Street Journal just to name a few. What’s interesting about all of these publications is that they all make note of how volatile […]