This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series InterviewsI was recently witness to some breaking news that garnered quite a response. In the first 72 hours, the news of the Bitcoin MasterCard resulted in 200+ tweets, I was cited as a source for over a hundred other blogs including heavy-hitters like Engadget and made [...]
As practically ever aspect of our daily lives begins moving slowly to the cloud, it behooves us to inspect this “cloud” and find all the chinks in the armor that is protecting an increasingly large percentage of our lives. While the goals of cloud providers and customers seem to be one and the same where [...]
Last night I found an oldie I somehow missed in one of my hours-long StumbleUpon marathons that made my brain spin – a SourceForge project called Monolith. Monolith is an extraordinarily simple bit of code that does something completely functionally useless: It absolutely ruins binary files in a sort of reversible way. Tip With Bitcoin1HPCRxK8WfgJJ21miA1G8dW7G2zAbP4JfEach [...]
Those of you who have been around the Bitcoin block a time or two have probably heard of, and even used, BitInstant. BitInstant is a service that provides the ability to transfer funds between Bitcoin and governmental currencies much more quickly than would otherwise be possible. They’re also well known for certain transaction types not [...]
Yesterday, while I was hard at work and paying very little attention to the internets, something amazing happened. Matthew Inman of TheOatmeal fame stumbled across a charity that’s trying to buy Nikola Tesla’s old Wardenclyffe laboratory and convert it into a museum. The fact that we have no museums honoring Tesla in the U.S. is [...]
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