The ECB (European Central Bank) has produced the first official central bank study of the decentralized cryptographic money known as bitcoin, Virtual Currency Schemes. Ignoring for a moment the...

American Banker recently ran an interesting article about the attack patterns of many recent hacks as they apply to the banking industry. They hit the nail on the head with regard to the attack...

Even under horrifically inappropriate circumstances, we humans experience a strange emotion the Germans call schadenfreude - pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. Perhaps it's the...

Arbitrage serves an important function in the Bitcoin economy. Thanks to the individuals and automated bots that actively look for price differences between the various Bitcoin exchanges and buy...

gAtO wAs- thinking about one of my heroes SATOSHI NAKAMOTO only 4 years ago November 1, 2008 he posted the research paper describing a new digital currency called BITCOIN. He cracked the problem...

COINS, CURRENCY,, checks and credit cards — marvels of portable value that have stood the test of time — are eminently replaceable by new technologies. Banks succeeded at automating old products...

Virtual money. It’s not credit and it’s not an online payment. It’s a new concept that’s giving e-commerce a run for its money.

After the publishing of the book “Deep Dark Web” many colleagues asked me to explain how does work the finance in hidden world and which is the currency used for the transactions? Of course I...

Thanksgiving and the ensuing shopping sprees are a few weeks away, but a group of merchants who accept the digital currency Bitcoin are planning their own Black Friday before then.