'Buy Bitcoin' Sign Raised as Fed Chair Janet Yellen Testifies Before Congress Yellen appeared before the House Financial Services Committee to give remarks on the state of the US economy and field questions from committee members. As chief of the US central bank, Yellen also spoke about a recent semi-annual report delivered to Congress by the Fed.
And while Yellen made headlines by expressing her willingness to raise interest rates amidst a healthier economic climate (following years of near-zero rates instituted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis), it was one attendee who drew notice on social media after he held up a "buy bitcoin" sign two rows behind where Yellen was seated.
A screen grab of the moment was tweeted by CNBC staffer Steve Kopack, and later shared by others who have been watching Yellen's testimony before Congress.
The identity of the person who held up the sign isn't immediately clear.
Yet in a follow-up tweet, Wall Street Journal national economics correspondent Nick Timiraos reported that the individual, along with another, had left the room "after a staffer made some instruction to them." Video published by Bloomberg shows the two individuals being spoken to by a staffer.
Yellen – who told Congress in 2014 that the Fed "doesn't have authority to supervise or regulate bitcoin in any way" – remarked earlier this year that she believes blockchain is an "important technology".
Read more and click the links at http://www.coindesk.com/buy-bitcoin-sign-raised-feds-janet-yellen-testifies-congress/.====================
==================== 'Bitcoin Sign Guy' Nets Almost $15,000 After Fed Chair Appearance Goes Viral Blockchain data reveals that it pays to be the Bitcoin Sign Guy.
The bitcoin community was abuzz yesterday when, during an appearance before a Congressional committee by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, an attendee held aloft a "buy bitcoin" sign. The image of the sign quickly went viral, though the attendee and his friend were ultimately asked to leave by a staffer.
Soon after his appearance, it emerged that the individual is a friend of a cryptocurrency trader who tweets under the handle CryptoEthan. He posted a picture of the person – soon known as the "Bitcoin Sign Guy" – who, in addition to holding up the now-infamous sign, shared a bitcoin address as well.
As of press time, that address has garnered 6.32570673 BTC, an amount worth just under $15,000 at current prices. While most of the transactions involved, numbering 556 according to Blockchain.info, were small in scale, one notable contribution was for 1 BTC.
Read more and click the links at http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-sign-guy-nets-almost-15000-fed-chair-appearance-goes-viral/.
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From Bitcoin to Ether:
Today's Blockchain Basics Often hidden behind the headlines of Bitcoin's meteoric rise in market value and blockchain's technological promise is a basic understanding of what these two technologies are and where they come from.
This brief article examines the digital currencies Bitcoin and Ethereum and introduces Blockchain, the technology that facilitates the digital transfer of value and much more.
Bitcoin: The Beginning?
"I think the internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash." — Milton Friedman, '99'
In 2008, a person or group of people acting under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. The paper introduced a solution to two puzzling issues.
Read more at https://fee.org/articles/from-bitcoin-to-ether-todays-blockchain-basics/.
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The 10 worst health HOAXES pushed as “science” over the last 100 years Beware of the 10 worst health HOAXES pushed as “science” over the last 100 years
LIE #1. If a health study is “peer reviewed,” then it is evidence-based, reliable and true. Did you know that as much as 90% of the published medical information that doctors rely on is completely wrong? It’s true. Many science “studies” and research have predetermined outcomes and results that are scripted first by the companies and corporations that will profit from the product, then, after that, the tests are “run” by shill scientists who twist, distort or even discard the findings that don’t fit the scripted conclusion. Then big bucks trade hands and the findings are published in quack journals like JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). This has been going on for a century.
LIE #2. If a food additive, prescription drug or immunization is approved by the FDA or the CDC, then scientists have tested it thoroughly for “safety and efficacy” and you should consume it without question. The CDC and FDA are businesses that function for profit at the health expense of Americans. Never rely on anything approved by these rogue “regulatory” agencies that are in the business of chronic sick care, and have been since their inception. Ask your naturopathic doctor for advice about food and medicine that’s “approved” by the FDA or CDC.
LIE #3. Cigarettes are good for digestion and recommended by more than 20,000 doctors in America. Yes, they did do that. Doctors advertised their favorite brands and lied to Americans for decades after science had proven cigarette smoke causes lung cancer. Read more at http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-07-02-the-10-worst-health-hoaxes-pushed-as-science-over-the-last-100-years.html.
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Solar Energy Produces 300 Times More Toxic Waste Than Does Nuclear Power One of the major reasons why hundreds of billions of dollars are poured into solar energy is that people are looking for "emissions free", "clean" energy.
We've discussed the inherent problems with solar and wind energy already, but one alternative is usually overlooked: nuclear power.
Nuclear power is "green" from the environmentalist standpoint as it produces next to no emissions. It's also reliable and inexpensive.
Plus, the technology already is already commercially viable, and scalable. For example, 5% of the world runs on nuclear energy, and France ran on nuclear power for decades with no issues.
There was a time when nuclear energy looked like it would take the world by storm. And honestly, if the world spent even half of the money it spent on solar energy on nuclear power, we could've made the transition to an emissions-free world decades ago.
So why didn't the world just switch to nuclear when the whole green energy trend hit?
Two reasons: meltdowns and waste.
Debunking the "Problems" with Nuclear Power
First, nuclear meltdowns are sensationalized and very, very unlikely, but that didn't stop people from irrationally fearing nuclear meltdowns in their backyard—Chernobyl is a tough image to get out of your head.
And who can blame them? With the media's sensational coverage of incidents like Three Mile Island, or the Fukishima disaster, it's no wonder people were a little put off about nuclear power.
But that's not the only reason.
The second (and possibly more important) problem is nuclear waste. We can't dispose of it (or so they say). Environmentalists hate that we just toss it in old mines and forget about it.
This is a legitimate concern, but I hope the same crowd that rallies against nuclear in favor of solar power won't miss the irony of these recent findings about toxic waste.
A new report from Environmental Progress shows that solar panels produce an obscene amount of waste, especially relative to the amount of power they produce.
Here are some of the key findings:
1. Solar panels create 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than do nuclear power plants.
2. If solar and nuclear produce the same amount of electricity over the next 25 years that nuclear produced in 2016, and the waste is stacked on football fields, the nuclear waste would reach the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa (52 meters), while the solar waste would reach the height of two Mt. Everests (16 km).
3. In countries like China, India, and Ghana, communities living near e-waste dumps often burn the waste in order to salvage the valuable copper wires for resale. Since this process requires burning off the plastic, the resulting smoke contains toxic fumes that are carcinogenic and teratogenic (birth defect-causing) when inhaled.
Read more and click the links at https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2017/06/29/solar-energy-produces-300-times-toxic-waste-nuclear-power/.
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Trump "Overrules" Cabinet, Prepares To Unleash Global Trade War While one of Trump's recurring campaign promises was that he would "punish" China and other key US trade counterparties if elected, for taking advantage of free-trade by imposing steep tariffs and duties on foreign imports to "level the playing field", the President's stance changed drastically after the election, U-turning following his amicable meeting with China's president Xi Jinping in March, but mostly as a result of pressure by his ex-Goldman advisors to keep existing trade arrangements in place and not "rock the boat."
Now, all that may be about to fall apart.
According to Axios, behind the constant media scandals, "one of the most consequential and contentious internal debates of his presidency unfolded during a tense meeting Monday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House" where with "more than 20 top officials present, including Trump and Vice President Pence, the president and a small band of America First advisers made it clear they're hell-bent on imposing tariffs — potentially in the 20% range — on steel, and likely other imports."
In other words, Trump - true to his campaign promises - is set to launch a global trade wars after all, one where then main country impacted would be China, however the collateral damage would extend to Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany and the UK.
And what may be even more striking is that Trump overruled his cabinet, as "the sentiment in the room was 22 against and 3 in favor — but since one of the three is named Donald Trump, it was case closed." Axios adds that while "no decision has been made, the President is leaning towards imposing tariffs, despite opposition from nearly all his Cabinet."
Needless to say, if Trump follows through, the outcome would have a profound effect on U.S. economic and foreign policy; Trump will formalize his decision in the coming days.
What is also notable, is that this is the first time - so far off the record - in which Trump has openly defied his Wall Street establishment advisors, while siding with the Bannon "populist" front:
In a plan pushed by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and backed by chief strategist Steve Bannon (not present at the meeting), trade policy director Peter Navarro and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, the United States would impose tariffs on China and other big exporters of steel. Neither Mike Pence nor Jared Kushner weighed in either way. Read more at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-30/trump-overrules-cabinet-prepares-unleash-global-trade-war.
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The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans When I wrote my first article on billionaire bunkers years ago, I never would have imagined how quickly our world was changing. Our lives are in a constant state of flux, the political situation aside, our earth is rapidly changing. Between the increase of bizarre weather patterns hitting the earth, and recent major volcanic activity, now more than ever our focus is on our planet's future.
In the early 1980's, spiritual visionaries and futurists provided clues to our changing planet. Often dismissed as crazy prophets, their thoughts for a new world were quickly ignored and laughed at. Gordon-Michael Scallion was a futurist, teacher of consciousness studies and metaphysics and a spiritual visionary. In the 80's he claims to have had a spiritual awakening that helped him create very detailed maps of the future world, all stemming from a cataclysmic pole shift. The result, while not based on any science, nonetheless provides a vivid and compelling picture of an Earth ravaged by flooding.
Scallion believed that a pole shift would stem from global warming, nuclear activity, and the misuse of technology. Another theorist and psychic Edgar Cayce predicted a 16 to 20-degree shift, while Scallion predicted a 20-45 degree shift. Cayce predicted that when both Mt. Etna volcano in Italy and Mt. Pelee in Martinique erupt together, there will be approximately 90 days to evacuate the west coast before the massive flood claims the coastline.
But the most compelling argument is that an asteroid or comet collision with Earth could cause the entire planet to shift its axis of rotation.
According to a NASA report, "Many doomsday theorists have tried to take this natural geological occurrence and suggest it could lead to Earth's destruction. But would there be any dramatic effects? The answer, from the geologic and fossil records we have from hundreds of past magnetic polarity reversals, seems to be 'no.' There is nothing in the millions of years of geologic record to suggest that any of the doomsday scenarios connected to a pole reversal should be taken seriously."
I recently spent the day at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena where the NEOWISE Mission has become the official asteroid hunter. According to Amy Mainzer (JPL, NEOWISE principal investigator), the mission has discovered 250 new objects including 72 near-Earth objects and four new comets. They have the task of documenting potentially hazardous near-Earth objects.
NASA has even created an Asteroid watch website with detailed listings of discovered objects as well as a detailed Impact risk chart which lists the year 2020 as the earliest increased activity risk.
During the Obama administration, plans were developed for NASA to launch a robotic probe in 2021 toward a near-Earth asteroid; the current target is a 1,300-foot-wide (400 m) rock called 2008 EV5. According to John Holdren, then director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, "After it arrives at the asteroid, the spacecraft will pluck a boulder off its surface and then fly along with the space rock for a while, investigating the potential of a deflection strategy known as the "enhanced gravity tractor." The probe will then head back toward Earth, eventually placing the boulder in orbit around the moon. Astronauts aboard NASA's Orion space capsule will visit the rock in the mid-2020s.
While smaller asteroids can do great damage on a local scale, experts think that space rocks must be at least 0.6 miles wide to threaten human civilization. NASA scientists estimate that they have found at least 90 percent of these enormous, near-Earth asteroids, and none of them pose a threat for the future.
I spoke with Professor Donald L. Turcotte, an expert in planetary geology at the University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Science Department, he tells me that the predictions of earthquakes causing a planetary shift and coastal flooding is for the most part nonsense. However, he did say it is far more likely an asteroid hit would cause a polar shift. This could ultimately lead to cataclysmic change and a map similar to Scallion's original vision.
With all of this knowledge of future mapping, do the world's financial leaders know something we don't? Consider how many of the richest families have been grabbing up massive amounts of farmland around the world. All property is far away from coastal areas, and in locations conducive to self-survival, farming and coal mining. Read more and click the links at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/06/no_author/doomsday-maps/.
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Bitcoin in Perspective: Bill Gates Worth More, Gold 200 Times More An interesting article on HowMuch puts the Bitcoin phenomenon into proper perspective.
Google founder Larry Page's net worth beats bitcoin's entire market cap. Microsoft founder Bill Gates's net worth is double Bitcoin.
Please consider The Bitcoin Economy, in Perspective.
Last year, Bitcoin became more stable than gold, and earlier this year, the price of a Bitcoin surpassed that of an ounce of gold for the first time. Currently, all the bitcoin in the world is worth $41 billion. If that amount is hard to grasp, just think of it as one Larry Page – because $41 billion also happens to be the net worth of the guy who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.
Bill Gates, the richest man in the world is worth $86 billion, or the net worth of Larry Page and Bitcoin combined – with enough change to buy the L.A. Lakers, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Chicago Cubs and the Solomon Islands (not a sports team, but an entire country).
Money, of course, is fiduciary, which means it only has as much value as the trust we place in it. The same goes for gold: it derives its value solely from its rarity, combined with its desirability. The current world supply of mined gold is around 171,300 metric tonnes, which could be molded into a cube with sides of about 68 feet (20.7m). Its total value? Currently around $8.2 trillion. Or about 200 times the total value of Bitcoin.
Read more at https://mishtalk.com/2017/06/22/bitcoin-in-perspective-bill-gates-worth-more-gold-200-times-more/.
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Good Luck Getting Out Of That Subprime Auto Loan When Used Car Prices Crash We've written frequently in recent months about the coming subprime auto crisis which will very likely be prompted by a wave of off-lease vehicles that will flood the market with used inventory over the coming years. In fact, Morgan Stanley recently predicted that the surge in used inventory could result in as much as a 50% crash in used car prices over the next couple of years which would, in turn, put further pressure on the new car market which has already resorted to record incentive spending to maintain volumes.
Here are just a couple of our most recent notes on the topic:
Signs Of An Auto Bubble: Soaring Delinquencies In These 266 Subprime ABS Deals Can't Be Good
New Warning Signs Emerge For Subprime Auto Securitizations
Auto Lending Update - Someone Please Explain How This Is Not A Bubble
Of course, while pretty much anyone has been able to purchase that brand new BMW of their dreams over the past 5 years...courtesy of a surge in subprime lending volumes....
...getting out of those loans once used car prices crash and millions of Americans are left with massive negative equity balances won't be quite so easy...just ask Yvette Harris who is still making payments on her 1997 Mitsubishi nearly a decade after her car was repossessed. Per the New York Times:
More than a decade after Yvette Harris's 1997 Mitsubishi was repossessed, she is still paying off her car loan.
She has no choice. Her auto lender took her to court and won the right to seize a portion of her income to cover her debt. The lender has so far been able to garnish $4,133 from her paychecks — a drain that at one point forced Ms. Harris, a single mother who lives in the Bronx, to go on public assistance to support her two sons.
"How am I still paying for a car I don't have?" she asked.
For millions of Americans like Ms. Harris who have shaky credit and had to turn to subprime auto loans with high interest rates and hefty fees to buy a car, there is no getting out.
Many of these auto loans, it turns out, have a habit of haunting people long after their cars have been repossessed.
And while the aggregate subprime auto credit balances are no where near the trillions in debt that was extended to subprime mortgage borrowers leading up to the great recession, for many low-income Americans the fallout could actually be worse because they can't simply walk away. Read more and click the links at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-19/good-luck-getting-out-subprime-auto-loan-when-used-car-prices-crash.
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Several states set to collapse under crushing weight of bankrupt pensions: Will... For years Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has been warning Americans that many of the nation's public sector pensions are underfunded by hundreds of billions of dollars and are on a course to collapse.
In 2013, Adams warned police officers, firefighters, teachers and others who work for government entities that unless funding mechanisms and payout schedules changed, their pensions would be gone in a few years. Referencing the city of Detroit's bankruptcy, Adams wrote of the larger problem in municipalities all over America:
Across the country, city governments have all spent the pension funds instead of saving them. Almost no large city has the funds necessary to pay its obligations to retirees. Pension financial planning strategies are tragic nightmares of broken promises, dishonest politicians and delusional workers (who still somehow believe they're going to get paid).
A year-and-a-half later, in December 2014, Adams noted that underfunded pensions were set to take a new economic hit, as Congress considered legislation that would allow local governments to arbitrarily cut the benefits of retirees, many of whom were on fixed incomes. Citing a Washington Post story detailing the plan, Adams wrote:
This is precisely what I've long warned Natural News readers was coming. And this is merely the very beginning of the true destruction of the financial collapse headed our way. When the next market crash arrives, billions of dollars in retirement funds will be destroyed virtually overnight, and pension funds nationwide will be wiped out.
He followed up that warning with a prediction two years later that came true: The city of Dallas would have to freeze pension benefits lest the fund go completely broke, suspending withdrawals from the fire and police pension systems to prevent insolvency.
Now, it seems, even entire states are about to be consumed by broke pension funds: Illinois could be the first. (RELATED: Leftist-run cities on the brink of financial collapse thanks to massive debt)
The Land of Lincoln has been wrestling with underfunded pensions and over-promised benefits now for years, but in recent months the situation has gotten so bad that Illinois could be the first U.S. state to declare bankruptcy.
Political stalemate — the Legislature is dominated by Democrats and the governor, Bruce Rauner, is a Republican who won office, in large part, on a promise of reforming benefits and stopping the bleeding — is not helping. There is no agreement from either branch on how best to move forward, and neither side appears willing to give in.
"We're like a banana republic. We can't manage our money," said Rauner, as reported by CBS News, after the legislature failed to pass a full 2017 budget earlier this month.
Moody's Investor Service, a ratings agency, downgraded Illinois' general obligation bonds earlier this month to the lowest rating, referencing the state's growing pile of unpaid bills and skyrocketing pension debt. The state has the lowest credit rating in the entire country; low credit ratings make borrowing money even more expensive because riskier bets mean higher interest rates.
"Legislative gridlock has sidetracked efforts not only to address pension needs but also achieve fiscal balance, allowing a backlog of bills to approach $15 billion, or about 40 percent of the state's operating budget," Moody's noted in an analysis. Read more and click the links at http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-06-19-states-set-to-collapse-under-crushing-weight-of-bankrupt-pensions-will-illinois-become-the-first.html.
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Illinois State Official: "We Are In Massive Crisis Mode, This Is Not A False Alarm" In a last ditch attempt to resolve the ongoing budget impasse and prevent a potential crisis, which may culminate with an eventual default by the distressed state, yesterday the WSJ reported that Illinois Gov. Rauner ordered lawmakers to return for a special session this week, but the two sides still seem far apart. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner ordered the special session starting Monday, as the backlog of unpaid bills reaches $15.1 billion.
"Everyone needs to get serious and get to work," he said in a video announcing the session that his office posted on Facebook.
As reported previously, the state Transportation Department said it would stop roadwork by July 1 if Illinois entered its third consecutive fiscal year without a budget - the longest such stretch of any US state - while the Powerball lottery said it may be forced to dump Illinois over its lack of budget. For now, state workers have continued to receive pay because of court orders... Read more at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-17/illinois-state-official-we-are-massive-crisis-mode-not-false-alarm.
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Senate Bill to Force Citizens to Register Cash Not in a Bank, Violators Get 10 Years in Prison Under the guise of combating money laundering, Senate Bill 1241, "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017," ramps up regulation of digital currency and other autocratic financial controls in an attempt to ensure none of your assets can escape one of the State's most nefarious, despised powers: civil asset forfeiture.
All of this under the farcically broad umbrella of fighting terrorism.
Civil forfeiture grants the government robbery writ large: your cash, property, and assets can be stolen completely sans due process, your guilt — frequently pertaining to drug 'crimes' — matters not.
A court verdict of not guilty doesn't even guarantee the return of State-thefted property.
In fact, the government can seize virtually whatever it wants if it so much as suspects some of your assets might have been acquired through or used in the commission of even lesser crimes.
For some time, a war on cash has been brewing behind the closed doors of government, and — although officials prefer to claim counterfeiting, terrorism, and money laundering as the impetus for asset tracking — in actuality, physical currency facilitates black market and untaxed transactions, and, most imperatively to the U.S., cannot be thefted under civil asset forfeiture laws as easily as money exchanged digitally. Read more at http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/06/18/senate-bill-to-force-citizens-to-register-cash-not-in-a-bank-violators-get-10-years-in-prison/.
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Dr. Tim Ball Crushes Climate Change: The Biggest Deception in History President Trump was correct to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. He could have explained that the science was premeditated and deliberately orchestrated to demonize CO2 for a political agenda. Wisely, he simply explained that it was a bad deal for the United States because it gave a competitive economic edge to other nations, especially China. A majority of Americans think he was wrong, but more would disagree if he got lost in the complexities of the science. I speak from experience having taught a Science credit course for 25 years for the student population that mirrors society with 80 percent of them being Arts students. Promoters of what is called anthropogenic global warming (AGW) knew most people do not understand the science and exploited it. Read more and click the links at https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2017/06/15/dr-tim-ball-crushes-climate-change-the-biggest-deception-in-history/.
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A load of links to a lot of reasoning and understanding...
The Motherboard Bitcoin and Ethereum Primer Your entry portal to the world of cryptocurrency...
Many programmers, investors, companies and lay people are convinced that these blockchain-based currencies have the potential to change the world in myriad different ways.
This primer features just some of Motherboard's coverage of bitcoin and ethereum over the last few years to help you get up to speed on the rapidly evolving world of cryptocurrencies. Although Motherboard has also covered other altcoins like Monero, Zcash, Auroracoin and Dogecoin, this primer is focused on articles related to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Additionally, we've written on these topics too many times to count, so we're just serving you up the hits.
If you know all about bitcoin and are looking to learn about Ethereum, check out our beginner's guide.
BITCOIN
Why Satoshi Nakamoto Matters (2016)
Sataoshi Nakamoto is the name at the top of the infamous 2009 whitepaper that introduced bitcoin to the world. Nobody knows whether Nakamoto is an individual or a collective, or his intentions.
Life Inside a Chinese Bitcoin Mine (2015)
This Motherboard documentary takes you inside an underground bitcoin mine in rural China. After its release, bitcoin quickly succumbed to economies of scale, meaning that the only profitable way to mine the currency is by running massive mining operations where electricity is cheap—like China. Far from the pristine server centers of Palo Alto, this dingy Chinese mine is nevertheless reaping millions in bitcoin.
Bitcoin Isn't the Criminal Safe Haven People Think It Is (2013)
It's no secret that bitcoin fuels online dark net markets. But it's not as anonymous as most people think.
Unless Everyone Using Bitcoin Makes This Radical Change, the Currency Will Die (2015)
This piece marks the beginning of Motherboard's coverage of the "block size debate," now referred to as a "civil war" without a clear end in sight. We've written about the events, issues, and drama in this debate countless times.
The Dream of Buying a Coffee With Bitcoin is Dying, If Not Already Dead (2016)
The block size debate continues. Many bitcoin proponents see the cryptocurrency as the future of financial transactions, which will allow you to buy everything from drugs to your Starbucks coffee. But delays in implementing a block size change have put this vision in jeopardy.
Bitcoiners Are Plotting Their Independence Day (2017)
Two years after we first wrote about the block size debate, the bitcoin network has become choked with transactions and it can take hours or even days for a bitcoin to make it through the network. This has fueled the "civil war" raging over the future of bitcoin. Is it almost at its end?
Bitcoin is Worth $2000. What? (2017)
A high-level explanation of what drives bitcoin's economy and price.
Bitcoin is Unsustainable (2015)
Why the energy cost of a single bitcoin transaction uses as much energy as the daily energy requirement of 1.5 American homes.
Colorado Hemp Farmers Are Turning to Bitcoin for Their Banking Woes (2016)
A concrete look at what bitcoin can offer under-banked industries.
I Visit Libraries to Sell Bitcoins to Random People From the Internet (2015)
Bitcoin is a digital currency, but the system is made up of real people. Did you know bitcoins can even be sold offline?
Is Going Offline a Solution to Bitcoin's Hacking Problem?
A primer on storing bitcoins offline, and how that can address some serious security problems that cost people real money.
Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin's 'Halving'
Does what it says on the tin. This piece explains a key aspect of what makes bitcoin's economy tick.
Check out the rest of Motherboard's bitcoin coverage
ETHEREUM
Ethereum's Boy King Is Thinking About Giving Up the Mantle (2017)
Motherboard's profile of Vitalik Buterin, the 23-year-old who invented ethereum at 19 and is now facing something of an existential crisis.
The First Version of the Programming Language and Cryptocurrency Ethereum Is Out (2015)
A look back at ethereum on the day it went live.
The Biggest Hacker Whodunnit of the Summer (2016)
An in-depth look at the infamous DAO hack, which saw an anonymous hacker steal $55 million from the ethereum network,and showed the risks associated with the smart contracts that are also ethereum's biggest selling point.
Why Ethereum Succeeded Where Bitcoin Failed (2016)
Why the hardfork following the DAO hack speaks to ethereum's ability to make quick, effective decisions.
Ethereum Hard Fork Spawned a Shaky Rebellion (2016)
Inside the split between Ethereum Core and Ethereum Classic as a result of the DAO hack.
Ethereum is DDoS-ing Itself (2017)
The wave of ethereum ICOs has exposed one of the network's biggest barriers to scalability.
An Idiot's Guide to Building an Ethereum Mining Rig (2017)
At the core of the ethereum network are the miners solving cryptographic hash functions to earn Ether. Here is an idiot's guide to learning how to get started in mining.
Smart Contracts Sound Boring, But They're More Disruptive than Bitcoin (2015)
At the heart of the ethereum network is the smart contract. What is it, and why do people think smart contracts will change the world?
Bitcoin's First Felon Wants to Use Ethereum to Buy Up Michigan's Waste Industry (2017)
How a felon arrested for ties to the Silk Road plans to use ether to buy up Michigan's mom-and-pop waste management industry. A look at one of the more out-there ideas about how ethereum can work in the real world.
Cryptocurrency Mining is Fueling a GPU Shortage (2017)
Can't find a graphics card anywhere? Blame the miners.
The National Bank of Canada Has Joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (2017)
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is a consortium of Fortune 500 companies and national actors looking to leverage the ethereum blockchain in their respective industries. One of the latest members is the National Bank of Canada. But why didn't they opt for Bitcoin?
Bitcoiners are Freaking Out Over 'The Flippening' (2017)
Ethereum is poised to become the world's number one cryptocurrency. In the original article, each of the above points is linked to an explanation about Bitcoin or Ethereum. Read more and click the links at https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-motherboard-bitcoin-and-ethereum-primer.
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