Why Bitcoin Needs its Own 'Got Milk?'
Adam Hanft is a brand strategist and founder of Hanft Projects, a consultancy firm that has worked with, among others, McKinsey, Microsoft, Conduit, Fidelity and Match.com. Here he shares his opinions on why bitcoin, the brand, is in dire need of some work. The fiercely emotional debate about bitcoin - which is simultaneously an argument about the currency itself as well as a set of fixed views about governments, markets and economic structures - highlights a stunning gap in the bitcoin ecosystem. On one hand, bitcoin is a brand - it's the name of a currency and payment platform, like the....
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Valentine’s Day is upon us! Forgot? No worries, Bitcoinist has got you covered. We are going to show you the best gifts Bitcoin can buy for all your Valentine’s Day needs! Valentine’s Day for the Bitcoinist. Valentine’s Day is here and if you’re as bad with this kind of things as I am, then you’re probably looking for a last-minute gift that can fill someone’s heart without emptying your pockets. There’s only one problem, though: If you really are like me, then you probably don’t have any fiat cash on you either. Or maybe you just want to use Bitcoin because, hey a special occasion....
OpenBazaar will be like a Silk Road that no one can shut down. OpenBazaar is an upcoming open-source, decentralised, and unregulated online marketplace. Similar to other projects such as Open Transactions and DarkMarket (OpenBazaar is actually a fork of DarkMarket), OpenBazaar is often described as the "BitTorrent of eCommerce", as it allows for an uncensored, peer-to-peer shopping experience with Bitcoin. Users will be able to buy and sell literally anything - raw milk, flash drives, books, anything imaginable. Of course, being an unregulated marketplace, it should go without saying that....
Money may be digital all over the Western world, but it now has some real competition, and competition always helps the consumer. Bitcoin is not going to become the primary global currency, but it will force the rest of the world to catch up to what Bitcoin can do for every person who uses it. Bitcoin provides many unique features that the world is just starting to get a taste of, and will soon come to expect in all other currencies. Here's a list of just 30 ways Bitcoin innovations are changing the way people will see, and use, money from now on. Peer-to-peer currency. You don't need a....
Here is a small exercise for all our readers. Make a list of things that come to your mind when I say 'Deep Web'. Hope you have made a mental list of all the things that came to your mind. Now, let me take the liberty to note down all the things that you might have associated with deep web. 1. Drugs. 2. Silk Road. 3. Bitcoin. 4. Ross Ulbricht. 5. FBI. 6. Hackers for hire. 7. Pornography. 8. Contraband. 9. Fake IDs. 10. Guns for hire. 11. Cookies. Guess I have got most of them right except for the last one. Yes, it is cookies. Not hash cookies or space cookies or the cookies that track your....