A Word from the CEO and Co-Founder of Bitmarkers

At first blush, bitcoin and gambling seem like a pretty comfortable pair and it seems to be flourishing. The concept of bitcoin and in-casino gambling may be a bit further off right now for the mainstream, but it's coming. And Ardon Lukasiewicz, brother of Coinsetter CEO Jaron Lukasiewicz, is all-in on bitcoin and brick-and-mortar casinos. "I'd like to pursue Las Vegas as the bitcoin mega-destination," he says. Lukasiewicz is the CEO of Bitmarkers, a company that plans to offer frictionless movement for gambling money via the use of bitcoin. Unlike the relatively unregulated online....

We're fast approaching the end of 2013, and with that comes a ton of looking back at what made the year so special. For the Australian National Dictionary Centre, that means choosing a word of the year. And this year, that word is bitcoin. That's right. It's a word that seemingly came from nowhere. Had you asked a sample of people in January if they knew what bitcoin was, the likelihood of any of them knowing was very low. Fast forward to today, with tons of media coverage, more people are likely to have at very least a basic idea of bitcoin (even if they think it's only used for crime).....

As 2021 nears its end, the firm Harpercollins, the publisher behind the printed and online Collins English Dictionary, has revealed “The Collins Word of the Year.” According to collinsdictionary.com, the word of the year is the abbreviation for non-fungible token, otherwise known as “NFT.” Collins English Dictionary Word of the Year Is NFT Non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles have obtained a nod from the publishing team behind the Collins English Dictionary. The unabridged Collins English Dictionary is published by the company Harpercollins and was the first....

I'm just not a big fan of "miners". No, not the miners themselves but the word itself may be a negative as bitcoin strives for popularity. The word throws us for a loop by taking us back to the days of gold mining and gold coins. So, naturally, bitcoin must be mined like gold but this clearly is a bad word choice. The word means physical work, like when they dug gold out of the ground and refined it with hammer and chisel. Bitcoin miners are not miners at all. They are community record keepers. Imagine if we would have come out of the gate with the bitcoin protocol, releasing periodic....

The B Word Bitcoin conference was a travesty of discourse that failed to advance the conversation on Bitcoin as a technology in any meaningful way.