Rick Falkvinge: ‘Bitcoin Will Have Enormous Political Effects in the Middle East’
We sat down with Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the first ever Pirate Party in Sweden, and discussed decentralization, Bitcoin, privacy, and the Middle East’s need for alternative media channels. Rick’s entrepreneurial spirit began when he started his first company at 16. Currently living in Sollentuna, a suburb close to the airport of Stockholm, Sweden, Rick is now running Falconwing news, an online media outlet that aims to “defend the Internet’s fundamental values.” “Oldmedia has basically let itself get reduced to mouthpieces for regimes in various stages of corruption; there is little....
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Rick Falkvinge, the author of Swarmwise (inspiration for Ethereum) and founder of the Pirate Party, plans on shaking up the world with his new project called SwarmOps, which will be fully presented at the Swarm Demo Day this week on November 5th. Rick Falkvinge is founder of the Pirate Party + SwarmOps and the author of Swarmwise. Ruben Alexander: What motivated you to start the Pirate Party? Rick Falkvinge: The usual entrepreneur's insight, to be honest. I was looking at policies being made in the information policy field and civil liberties, and thought "I can do this better". So I did.....
Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the original Swedish Pirate Party, argues on TorrentFreak that Bitcoin circumvents every single financial regulation, and the government itself, as irrelevant and obsolete. He predicts that the establishment will fight back ruthlessly. "The copyright monopoly war wasn't the war, it was the tutorial mission. The internet generation is using technology to assert its values and its place in society, and the old industrial generation is pushing back hard against irrelevance. Things are about to get much worse." After recalling the history of the copyright wars,....
Amid political turmoil in Iceland, Pirate party leader Rick Falkvinge has come out in support of “favourable” environments for Bitcoin and digital currencies. Iceland’s Pirate Party has gained a strong following in recent years, with many optimistic following the resignation of the country’s incumbent Prime Minister due to the Panama Papers scandal. Its....
Blockstream CEO Adam Back has refuted claims by Swedish Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge that the company “has patents in SegWit.” Pirate Party’s Falkvinge: Blockstream SegWit Support Driven By Patents. In a Twitter response Monday, Back stated Blockstream “does not have any patents, patent applications, provisional patent applications, or anything similar, related to segwit.” Falkvinge, who is a staunch supporter of bigger blocks proposed by rival scaling solution campaigners Bitcoin Unlimited, had earlier Monday released a dedicated post on his website arguing Blockstream’s SegWit....
In a brilliant essay on Bitcoin and the promise it holds for a decentralized future (published on the Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge's website), Nozomi Hayase explained the disruptive potential of Bitcoin. Now she further elaborates in a new essay on Falkvinge's site, and explores how the Bitcoin ecosystem offers a different model of governance and how within it, our familiar notion of power can be redefined to mean something radically different. "[W]hen I say Bitcoin, I am talking about the underlying technology of the blockchain (which is much more than currency), along with its....