“devising a scheme that handles both messaging and payments under one roof could be a killer app” – Colin Harper

As part of Bitcoin Magazine’s

“To fully understand any organism, we must not only look at the organism itself, but examine the organism-environment holistically.” – Gigi

If Bitcoin is a

“A volatile currency for volatile times” – Timour Azhari

When the banks become the volatile alternative, when your rights and control over what’s in “your”

Microsoft has a history of funding and developing with open source systems, and has started a new project called ION, trying to make a universal,

Is the blockchain a critical tool that creates the power behind Bitcoin, or is it a wasteful and unavoidable byproduct, an exhaust, of the system

“If you ask me how much trust is right for the Lightning economy, the answer will always be less.” – Roy Sheinfeld

Today we dig

“By design, Bitcoin exists beyond governments. […] The architecture of bitcoin is practically purpose-built to resist and immunize any attempts by governments to ban it.”

“Decentralization has […] been a vessel for achieving a concession from a centralized body it is protesting. Every decentralization play has followed a simple pattern:

“Bitcoin is a movement founded on individual monetary sovereignty, transparency and peer-to-peer auditability enabled by a breakthrough in technology. […] The technology to provide auditability