The staring match between The Man and bitcoin: nobody's blinked yet

The staring match between The Man and bitcoin: nobody's blinked yet

Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 16th August 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. Keeping your secrets in plain sight. If you only feel good about one thing this week, it should be this. By being interested in bitcoin, you're at the epicentre of one of the biggest experiments in personal technology, law, money and human rights this century. Overblown? Hardly. As part of the fall-out from revelations about the extent of state surveillance....


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