As Silk Road emerged from the "dark-web", other sites have appeared offering services that are frowned upon by most. As Forbes reports, perhaps the most-disturbing is "The Assassination Market" run by a pseudnymous Kuwabatake Sanjuro. The site, remarkably, a crowdfunding service that l…tually enable the assassinations of enough politicians that no one would dare to hold office. He says he intends Assassination Market to destroy “all governments, everywhere.” “ I believe it will change the world for the better, ” writes Sanjuro, who shares his handle with the nameless

Word on the street is that the latest, 0.8-est release of the ‘official’ reference client is out, with some moves to start addressing the scalability of the Bitcoin transaction database, by the looks of it. Grab it here. Here’s the full info from the mailing list: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.…8 and Windows 8. LevelDB, a fast, open-source, non-relational database from Google, is now used to store transaction and block indices. LevelDB works much better on machines with slow I/O and is faster in general. Berkeley DB is now only used for the wallet.dat file (public and private

Rep. Ron Paul sponsored this Congressional lecture on “What is Constitutional Money?”, part two of a three part series on the basic principles of money for Congressional staff. As a continuing educational tool this lecture was filmed and is provided to the public. The lecture was deliv…e erosion of that legal framework over 200+ years of monetary history. He also explains his plan to return to sound money, outlining the grim ramifications of continuing on a fiat money standard. Pt. 1: “What is Money” — Pt. 3: “What About Money Causes Economic Crises?” — Rating: 4 / 5

Posted on: November 14, 2013 Circle Internet Financial has named Raj Date to its board of directors. Date is the managing partner of Fenway Summer and the former deputy director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Based in Boston, Circle Internet Financial is a provider o…and receive digital currency. For businesses and charities, Circle is providing merchant services for accepting digital currency payments. By building financial products and services on top of Bitcoin, Circle is able to offer faster transactions, lower costs, greater privacy safeguards

A number of Bitcoin misconceptions are seen in news stories, reports, and discussions. Confusing Bitcoin wallet and Bitcoin address. A Bitcoin address is a single address and any balance can be seen publically on the Bitcoin Blockchain ledger. A wallet is normally a collection of Bitco…etimes this data is referred to as “encrypted” but that is technically not correct, it is “hashed.” Encryption is a 2-way function where you can get back where you started if you have the key. A “Hash” is a 1-way function and there is no key and no way to get back to where you started.