PayPal president David Marcus is trying to make nice with bitcoin, the digital currency that could ultimately become a big competitor to his company’s massively popular online payments service.
Tonight on the show, Ernest Hancock joins me to discuss the new BitCoin fund raising mechanism he is working on as well as the upcoming Freedom Summit 2014, 3d printed guns and more.
The power exercised by the "elite" is based on the control of information and money. With the internet and Bitcoin, nothing can hold back the message of freedom. Nothing can stop people from accessing the information and tools they need to make sig
Cody Wilson, inventor of the 3-D printable gun, is working to overcome one of the main problems with Bitcoin: ease of use. His project to create an easy to use Bitcoin browser plug-in is about to go live.
“A lot depends on whether the government becomes anxious to move against Bitcoin,” he says. “Whether this is the most appropriate statute under which to control Bitcoin, I’m not so confident.”
Erik Voorhees (Coinapult, Bitinstant) on Bitcoin - Dianna Henry & Greg Schoen, Seed Keepers/Speakers @ Seed Wisdom: Benefit for Grandmother Flordemayo’s Seed Temple - John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; Hoodwinked) provides insight on o
Patrick Byrne will be joining the list of awesome speakers. His focus will be on Bitcoin (Overstock.Com will be the first major company to be taking Bitcoin) and Education (Patrick serves as co-chair, along with Rose Friedman, for The Friedman Founda
Overstock.com has become the first major online shopping retailer to accept the digital currency bitcoin as payment in exchange for any of our million products. We are doing this for both business and philosophical reasons.
Patrick Byrne, the company’s chief executive, said Overstock planned to let online shoppers pay for goods with Bitcoin by June. The retailer is evaluating the services of several third-party firms that facilitate Bitcoin transactions, with the goal o
Two months after the CIO of Fortress Investment Group recommended "putting a little money in Bitcoin," the massive fund is preparing to luanch its own Bitcoin Fund (likely considerably larger than the SecondMarket offering).
Jesse Heaslip is co-chief executive for Bex.io, a privately held company providing a platform that allows you to own your own bitcoin exchange. Jesse leads business development, design and marketing and the company just completed a successful financi
You can think of them as the Bitcoin Santas. Every so often, they appear out of nowhere and bestow gifts on people across the globe, a bit like Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. The difference is that they always give bitcoins, the world’s most popular d
Jeffrey Tucker (Author, Executive Editor of Laissez Faire Books, Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me, and fellow Foundation for Economic Education) on economic issues, Bitcoin, and predictions for the future...On for 3 hours :)
Jeffrey Tucker (Author, Executive Editor of Laissez Faire Books, Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me, and fellow Foundation for Economic Education) on economic issues, Bitcoin, and predictions for the future...On for 3 hours :)
The Internet “pirate” accused of running the notorious illegal-drug-peddling Web site Silk Road claims that the feds are the real buccaneers — robbing him to the tune of $33.6 million worth of the encrypted, virtual currency bitcoin.