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 …

Rickard Falkvinge: Has BitCoin “Central Bank” Crashed or Been Robbed? MtGox Failed to Honor $38 Million in Withdrawals

Major Bitcoin Exchange Not Executing Withdrawals; Now Owes Clients $38M In Disappeared Money Cryptocurrency:  MtGox, the oldest and once-largest bitcoin exchange, appears to have a serious problem. Since about a week ago, clients’ bitcoin withdrawals have been deducted from their account, but the clients never received the money – the money withdrawn was effectively disappeared …

Anthony Judge: Quantum Wampum Essential to Navigating Ragnarok Thrival in crisis through embodying turbulent flow

Quantum Wampum Essential to Navigating Ragnarok Thrival in crisis through embodying turbulent flow Introduction Collapse of confidence, value, meaning, honour, options and patience Wampum and its modern variants Transcending the binary framing of confidence Implications of quantum framing of reality Enabling radical reframing of reality by non-physicists Technomimicry as key to a new mode of …

Rickard Falkvinge: The Toy-Hungry Multimillionaire Market That’s Completely Underserved

The Toy-Hungry Multimillionaire Market That’s Completely Underserved A scheisseload of US Dollars Cryptocurrency: In 2010 and 2011, a lot of geeks acquired something called bitcoin. It’s a novel form of currency that breaks all the rules you know and redefines currency as we know it. In 2011, this currency was worth mid-single digits per “coin”. Today, …