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The use of Bitcoin’s blockchain to store data unrelated to Bitcoin payments is a controversial subject. Many people consider such use abusive and want to discourage it. Others view it as a demonstration of the powerful capabilities of blockchain technology and want to encourage such experimentation. Those who object to the inclusion of nonpayment d

The way we typically transfer physical cash has little resemblance to the way we transfer bitcoins. Physical cash is a bearer token. Alice pays Bob by handing him some number of tokens, such as dollar bills. By comparison, bitcoins don’t exist either physically or as digital data—​Alice can’t hand Bob some bitcoins or send them by email. Instead, c

The constantly increasing supply means a continuous devaluation of the currency, expropriating the wealth of the holders to benefit those who print the currency, and those who receive it earliest.

Depuis la fermeture de Silk Road par le FBI, en octobre 2013, l’activité en Bitcoin s’est largement régularisée, confirme un article du quotidien Les Échos, qui relaie les estimations de la start-up américaine Chainalysis, spécialisée dans l’analyse de la blockchain : « L’économie informelle et illicite, autour de 6 % des volumes, est aujourd’hui l

Wences gave $100,000 of his own money to two high-level hackers he knew in eastern Europe and asked them to do their best to hack the Bitcoin protocol. He was especially curious about whether they could counterfeit Bitcoins or spend the coins held in other people’s wallets—the most damaging possible flaw. At the end of the summer, the hackers asked

Rather than scaring people away, Schumer’s commentary—and the deluge of media attention it received—brought on yet another surge of interest, sending the price of Bitcoin on an Icarus-like rise that had it at $30 within two days. That was a 600 percent rise from a month earlier, and a 9,000 percent increase from six months earlier. Silk Road now ha