Oct 10 What Can Bitcoin Buy? No More Heroin, but Baklava and a Dinner Date By Marc Hochstein and Stephen Pair What can Bitcoins get you and how do you make purchases with them? Photo courtesy of Flickr user Rene Walter. Continuing our series of interviews about Bitcoin, which we explored in last week's… Continue reading
Oct 09 A Bitcoin evangelist on the virtues of cryptocurrency As part of our series of conversations on Bitcoin, Jonathan Mohan explains that even if Bitcoin fails, cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Photo courtesy of Flickr user BTC Keychain. Continue reading
Oct 09 A Bitcoin Evangelist on the Virtues of Cryptocurrency By Jonathan Mohan Making Sen$e recently examined Bitcoin and the rise of its mainstream appeal. Paul Solman: Our Bitcoin story on the NewsHour is proving so popular that we've decided to post longer excerpts of our main interviews. Earlier… Continue reading
Oct 09 The mathematician’s defense of Bitcoin: It’s just another option Our Making Sen$e broadcast on the rise of Bitcoin didn't have time to explore every angle. In this transcript of our conversation with Bitcoin Education Project's Charles Hoskinson, he explains why Bitcoin is just another, albeit special, payment option. Continue reading
Oct 09 The Mathematician’s Defense of Bitcoin: It’s Just Another Option Making Sen$e recently examined Bitcoin and the rise of its mainstream appeal. Paul Solman: A fascinating thread of critical comments in response to our Bitcoin story last week prompts this and a series of follow-up posts, including several… Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch Bitcoin gains mainstream interest after initial ‘outlier’ appeal Bitcoin gains mainstream interest after initial 'outlier' appeal… Continue watching
Oct 02 Watch Silk Road used ‘anonymity layers,’ digital currency to sell drugs in plain sight Silk Road used 'anonymity layers,' digital currency to sell drugs in plain sight… Continue watching
Oct 02 Watch Feds bust online illegal drug market and its ‘Pirate’ proprietor Federal investigators shut down the high-profile online market for illegal drugs known as Silk Road and arrested the site's alleged mastermind, Ross Ulbricht. Cordelia Lynch of International Television News reports on how easy it was to access illicit substances using… Continue watching