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This post can also be read at OfNumbers » The Bitcoin network, and the networks of most of its descendants, are powered by a labor force, called miners. They are provided a wage, a seigniorage subsidy, called a block reward. They get paid roughly...

Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 24th January 2014 – a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host … John Law...

Writer, reporter, and film producer Jim Epstein talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about mining Bitcoins in Venezuela as a way to import food. Venezuela is a tragicomic example of how policy can lead to strange and presumably unexpected outcomes....

Bitfury, the Bitcoin mining company, recently published two papers: Public versus Private Blockchains Part 1, Permissioned Blockchains Public versus Private Blockchains Part 2, Permissionless Blockchains The underlying motivations for writing them...

Hackers are the animals that can detect a storm coming or an earthquake. They just know, even though they don’t know why, and there are two big things hackers are excited about now and can’t articulate why – Bitcoin and 3D printing...