August 13, 2024 Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True? Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken. On Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, people fear out-of-control algorithms, fake news, state actor censorship, and…
May 30, 2024 Argentina Teams Up With El Salvador To Boost Crypto Adoption Argentine authorities are working with El Salvador, a pioneering nation in bitcoin adoption, aiming to boost cryptocurrency adoption in Argentina. High-ranking officials from Argentina’s…
May 30, 2024 The Illusion of Financial Privacy You have a 15-character password, shield the ATM as you enter your PIN, close the door when you meet with your banker, and shred…
May 9, 2024 The Government Fears This Privacy Tool The Department of Justice indicted the creators of an application that helps people spend their bitcoins anonymously. They’re accused of “conspiracy to commit money…
May 1, 2024 Groundhog Day for the Crypto Wars: The DOJ on Bitcoin Prowl On April 24, the Department of Justice continued its assault on open source developers, arresting Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill on allegations of…
March 23, 2024 How 1990s Libertarians Laid the Groundwork for Cryptocurrency The Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek wanted to denationalize money. David Chaum, an innovator in the field of cryptography and electronic cash, wanted to shield…
March 22, 2024 Review: How Ray Trapani Scammed the Crypto World and Got Away With it Bitconned is a tale about scams, backstabbings, and a failed justice system set in the world of cryptocurrency. At the heart of the Netflix documentary…
January 10, 2024 Magatte Wade: The Real Reasons Why Africa Is Poor and Why It Matters Did you know that by 2050, a quarter of the planet’s population will reside in Africa? Yet despite abundant natural resources and a young and…
January 10, 2024 The Real Reasons Africa Is Poor—and Why It Matters Did you know that by 2050, fully a quarter of the planet’s population will reside in Africa? Yet despite abundant natural resources and a…
January 2, 2024 In 2024, Teens Will Get Pregnant in Driverless Cars In this year’s first episode of The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman and Katherine Mangu-Ward welcome special guests Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Zach Weissmueller…