Would Jesus Use Bitcoin Against the Money Changers?
In the ancient times of Passover, it is said that Jesus of Nazareth had disrupted the money changers’ business by driving them out of the holy temple. About two millennia later, Satoshi Nakamoto unleashed Bitcoin to the world when the creator mined the genesis block. The currency came at a time when corruption in the banking industry was becoming....
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Yesterday, the Huffington Post reported on Sir Bob Geldof's recent response to Russell Brand's call for a revolution, in which Geldof claimed "bitcoin is a nice idea but it simply won't work". Geldof's criticism wasn't based on his ignorance of the technology per se, or ignorance of economics in general, as Max Keiser suggested, but rather was an attack on monetary systems generally. According to the Huffington Post he "blamed the failure of capitalism on the banks going 'out of control' and due to human greed, inventing 'completely spurious' financial products". The crowning moment was....
John Lennon once said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Bitcoin is bigger than them both. What feels better than watching Bitcoin (BTC) skyrocket on bullish mass-adoption news? For hodlers, there aren't too many events in life more satisfying than a trip to the moon — and now the rest of the world seems to be catching on.Bitcoin, it seems, is outstripping sex — at least when it comes to Reddit users — which may come as little surprise to those of us who spend time on the "front page of the internet."Source: Reddit.Reddit enjoys a massive audience of 440 million users and has been a....
Oh, ye of "too much faith!" Those who follow the "Bitcoin Jesus," as he's come to be called will not be able to witness their leader rise to the top on U. S. soil. As it so happens, bitcoin evangelist Roger Ver is being denied entry into the United States to speak at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami after renouncing his U. S. citizenship. Ver earned citizenship with the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis last year and primarily splits his time between that country and Japan. The U. S. embassy in Barbados stated to Ver the following reason for the rejection: "One....
Bitcoin investor and evangelist Roger Ver -- "Bitcoin Jesus," some call him -- used bitcoins to buy his plane ticket from Tokyo, where he lives, to San Jose for Bitcoin 2013. He asked the parking lot attendant at the San Jose Convention Center if he could pay for his parking with bitcoins too (no dice). In fact, Ver pays for as much as he possibly can with the currency. He's invested more than a million dollars in it and holds his savings in it. And if all that is not enough, the man listens to the sounds of bitcoin transactions as background music as he goes about his day. Ver can truly....
Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 12th July 2013 - 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. The UK loves Vikings. And turtles. What about bitcoin? What made Britain great? The weather? The food? A pragmatic approach to the acquisition of wealth from others? As you munch your cheesy chips in the first sunny spell since last April, you may suspect what the rest of the world knows: if it involves other people's money, we'd like some, please. This may....