Rickard Falkvinge: BitCoin Billion Dollar Theft an Inside Job

The Gox Crater: Crowd Detectives Reveal Billion-Dollar Heist As Inside Job Cryptocurrency: Thousands of volunteering and self-organizing detectives have been meticulously laying a puzzle that reveals the Gox billion-dollar heist as an inside job. As smoke clears on the implosion of the Empty Gox bitcoin exchange, thousands of people in the community committed to revealing the …

Rickard Falkvinge: BitCoin Bank “Loses” One Billion Dollars — Complete Knowledge Lacking

Gox Goes Belly-up After Losing A Billion Dollars Without Noticing; Blames Fault In Corporate Bookkeeping Protocols Cryptocurrency:  So it’s more or less official: MtGox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has died and taken all its holdings with it to the grave. This follows a long string of evasive statements, silence, and strange behavior from …

Rickard Falkvinge: Bitcoin did not crash – MtGox was Sloppy with its Code Updates

The Embarrassing Fact MtGox Left Out Of Their Press Release: Their Bad Code Hygiene Was The Direct Cause Of Problems Cryptocurrency:  Yesterday, the bitcoin exchange MtGox – riddled by problems – issued a press release saying the bitcoin protocol was to blame for its ongoing problems. That statement, which caused the markets to nosedive temporarily, …

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Devin Balkind

David Belkind runs sarapis.org.  They are behind nycprepared.org. They have also built an experimental WordPress based game/bank. In addition he is an editor-at-large of occupywallstreet.net, wrote The FLO Consensus, and is finishing a forthcoming essay about how cryptocurrency and online games will unleash tremendous wealth over the next 10 years. He is on the board …