The slides for my presentation on “Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies: Illegal Money or a New Global Payment Option?” are now online. Download them here. Further information: Bitcoin Part 1 – Byzantine generals and pseudonyms,or: What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin Part 2 – Bitcoin mining Bitcoin Part 3 – Hashes, public key
Most translators and interpreters, as well as everybody doing international business, know them well: high bank charges, sometimes coupled with exorbitant exchange fees, endless, complicated forms, long clearance times etc. Then there is the archaic way of paying via check. Given that this is the 21st century, one might think
Faucets are websites, where generous (or not so generous) people give out BTC, most of the time in exchange for advertisements. Usually, you also have to solve Captchas in order to prove that you are not an automated bot. More often than not, these sites load pop-up windows with occasionally
This is part 4 of my series on Bitcoin. Part 1 featured an introduction and can be found here, part 2 discussed the mysterious operation of creating Bitcoins, called mining, and part 3 explained the public ledger, the block chain. For those of you for whom this was all a
This is part 3 of my series of blog posts on the topic cryptocurrencies. The first, introductory part can be found here. The second part on mining can be found here. Recap – Bitcoin = direct electronic transactions without intermediary To recap, I explained the main idea behind the Bitcoin
This is part II of my series of blog posts on the topic cryptocurrencies. The first, introductory part can be found here. Recap – Bitcoin = direct electronic transactions without intermediary To recap, I explained the main idea behind the Bitcoin protocol, which allows electronic peer-to-peer transactions without an intermediary.
In preparation for my upcoming presentation at the American Translators Association’s 56th conference in Miami with the title “Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies – Illegal Money or a New Global Payment Option?,” I am going to write a series of blog posts on the topic. To anticipate the answer to the
