Rickard Falkvinge: Why Bitcoin Is Poised To Change Society Much More Than The Internet Did

Why Bitcoin Is Poised To Change Society Much More Than The Internet Did Posted: 03 Apr 2013 12:52 PM PDT Swarm Economy:  There is a bitcoin craze at the moment, with prices of bitcoin skyrocketing. Bitcoin is still far from ready for prime time, but as it matures, it will change society’s fundamental operations much …

Rickard Falkvinge: Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Three.

Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Three. Swarm Management:  If the last chapter was about the first six to eight days of the swarm’s lifecycle, this chapter is about the first six to eight weeks. While the effective swarm consists almost entirely of loosely-knit activists, there is a core of people …

Rickard Falkvinge: EU & Banks Confiscate Operating Capital in Cypruss

Death of the Small Eurobusiness, In a Bank Screenshot With banks opening on Cyprus, many entrepreneurs realized they had been wrecked overnight by their government’s dishonesty. The so-called bank bailout was in reality a death sentence for many small businesses, who saw their operating capital confiscated to save the government’s face. This move will create …

Rickard Falkvinge: Swarm Economy and BitCoin, Plus Pirate (People’s) Parties Rising in Iceland & Croatia

Why Expensify Endorsing Bitcoin Is A Really Big Deal: Social Virality Swarm Economy: Yesterday, news broke that the Expensify service has enabled bitcoin payments. With the rapidly expanding number of businesses accepting bitcoin as payment method, one could think that this was merely another player in the pool of bitcoin’s expanding economy (which just broke the …

Rickard Falkvinge: Does Freedom of Speech Require a Technical Resilience Solution Impervious to Government Corruption?

The Pirate Bay Is A Trailblazer In Technical Resilience Infrastructure:  The Pirate Bay is a site that has remained online for ten years come this summer, despite attempts from almost every Ancient-Power-That-Be to shut it down. It has often been said that The Pirate Bay hasn’t evolved much at all in the past five years; …

Rickard Falkvinge: Banks Lose Public Trust, Run on Banks Looming

After Cyprus, New Tolls For The Euro Reflections: After the attempted tolls on bank savings in Cyprus for saving the Euro, a new kind of tolls can be heard in the distance for the currency. The fundamental trust in the currency as a store of value has been broken, according to multiple signs across Europe. Even …

Rickard Falkvinge: Target Value For Bitcoin Is Not $50 Or $100. It Is $100,000 To $1,000,000.

Target Value For Bitcoin Is Not$50 Or $100. It Is $100,000 To $1,000,000. Swarm Economy:  Bitcoin’s value is at an all-time high again. Following the hype peak and crash in 2011, many seemed to have thought it was just another dotcom fluke. But bitcoin was much more than that, and it has returned with a …