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The blockchain isn’t just for Bitcoin transactions. Advertisers can no longer ignore blockchain’s huge implications for the world of marketing.
The cryptocurrency is now starting to challenge gold as the investment of choice.
Where our money comes from is deeply political and the politics involved is often highly complex.
Multiple use cases for the blockchain are currently being tested, so it’s worth learning the basics.
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.
The cryptocurrency will soon undergo a major change – and no one knows what will happen next.
Here’s how to protect yourself from the latest online scourge of hackers encrypting your files and demanding a ransom to unlock them.
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?
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.
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.
Regulating bitcoin and digital currencies is hard, but tackling currency exchanges may be the answer.
With the Bank of England mooting the idea it might get involved with digital currencies, you might think it was good news for Bitcoin.
The price of bitcoin has crashed to below US$290, its lowest since November 2013, and far below its all-time-high of US$1,242 later that same month. For about three hours the price sat below US$300. This…
Efforts to explain Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general have generally focused on how they are both a new form of money as well as a challenge to existing forms of money. Cryptocurrencies are novel…
In terms of a life-cycle of technology, it is easy to see Bitcoin as being at the same developmental stage as babies going through the “terrible twos”. All of its technological possibility lies ahead…
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Hon Associate Professor. Research interests - AI and the law; Social relationships of trust; Sustainable futures, Australian National University
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