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A great technology solves a problem that we didn’t know we had. It makes us aware of deprivations we didn’t know existed until we …

Real progress happens through real people, ideas, and innovations. Not by legislation argued and debated in Congress. Right now, one of the most influential technologies is changing the way people do business. And reinventing the future in the process.

Every time Bitcoin crashes, it winds up at a price greater than it’s previous high. Yet the experts still call it a currency fad that will fade away. But a little over a year since it really took up, the digital currency is still going strong, and is once again seeing its price rise. But is there another reason why people are buying Bitcoins.

Bitcoins are largely considered digital currency (or “crypto currency”) so you’d expect it to be treated like currency on a retail web site. But the Internal Revenue Service might not think so.

The Silk Road was an undercover website where you could buy or sell illegal goods — drugs mainly. I believe passports were changing hands …

[Ed. Note: This article originally published on Jan. 24, 2013] Stocks up. Gold down. Bitcoin… waaay up. The S&P 500 busted through the 1,500 …

Before the housing market collapsed and the government pumped billions into the economy to save it, there was a programmer named Satoshi Nakamoto. And …

Now, this is sheer entertainment. The Chicago branch of the Federal Reserve has addressed the great monetary question of our day. A researcher has …

In March, I was at a conference in New Hampshire when a few Bitcoin businessmen sat me down to lunch. It seems like the …

Understanding Bitcoin requires that we understand the limits of our ability to imagine the future that the market can create for us. That is …