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Bitcoin, blockchain and automatic royalty payments could transform how musicians earn.
Ransomware – which encrypts your files and offers to sell you the key – operates differently from other malicious software. Those differences turn out to give potential victims a fighting chance.
Distributed autonomous organisations, or DAO, are a new form of decentralised organisation using blockchain technology. The DAO is first off the block, and it’s already making waves.
While Bitcoin gets all the attention, the blockchain technology it’s based on could have applications across business and government.
The cryptocurrency will soon undergo a major change – and no one knows what will happen next.
It’s just a matter of time before Bitcoin secures legitimacy as a currency.
Your guide to tapping into digital gold.
Here’s how to protect yourself from the latest online scourge of hackers encrypting your files and demanding a ransom to unlock them.
Despite the growth of card and mobile payments, cash is still king in many markets.
Blockchain technology has the potential to make share trading faster, more efficient and more transparent.
Public services delivered by blockchain? Taxes paid in bitcoin? Not so far fetched, a UK government report says.
How tax authorities decide to treat virtual currencies like bitcoin may determine whether they thrive or die.
Who is the mystery man behind the creation of the crypto-currency Bitcoin?
Renting out your assets, automating your home, getting married - there’s more to the blockchain than just currencies such as bitcoin.
Money used to be backed by something of real value such as gold or silver. Bitcoins and other digital currencies will sever that link forever.
Australia’s new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has announced what he calls a “21st-century government”. The Conversation continues its series focusing on what such a government should look like, looking…
There’s a dark side of the internet, where almost anything goes, or can be bought for the right price.
The tax treatment of Bitcoin has been holding back the industry in Australia, but gradually the rules are changing.
The technology behind Silk Road is still sound, but with the potential for a life sentence it would take faith to deploy them.
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