Beijing Increases Censorship, Surveillance Amid Blockchain Push
The Beijing regime is all about control. It is a country where people have very little freedom of information or finance (apart from the very affluent). While the state strives to be...
Tor Project Bitcoin Donation Fund Raises 65% on First Day
The group behind internet privacy project, Tor, has launched a bitcoin donation fund as part of their fight against web censorship and surveillance. Tor Teams Up With BTCPay The web...
‘Very Sad’: Lightning Torch Creator Laments Exclusion of...
The Lightning Network (LN) faced unusual censorship allegations this weekend after it emerged a participant in the Lightning Torch event refused to include a member from Iran. Sending...
Bitcoin Successfully Sent Cross-Border Without Internet or Satellite
Fears over government interference and internet surveillance have given rise to some novel experiments in sending offline transactions as somebody has transmitted bitcoin...
‘How to Use Bitcoin Anonymously’ Article Gets Banned on...
Publishing platform, Medium, has allegedly jumped on the censorship “ban-wagon”, after suspending an account which posted a Bitcoin anonymity guide. Whilst Medium has not...
Why Bitcoin? Patreon Pushed By Mastercard to Ban Accounts in...
Crowdfunding platform Patreon is grappling with fiat currency centralization after MasterCard demanded it must block the account of a prominent US author and several others. Spencer...
Gab Says Bitcoin is The Clear Solution as ‘Free Speech...
Censorship-free social media platform, Gab, took to Twitter to proclaim the gospel according to Bitcoin. Describing the grandaddy of cryptocurrency as “free speech money,”...
China ‘Sanitizes’ Andreas Antonopoulos’ Book...
Andreas Antonopoulos, author of the ‘Mastering Bitcoin’ cryptocurrency guides, has reacted positively after Chinese state television showcased his book – albeit with a...
Google: Not just Evil… Clueless About Crypto Too
The controversies of this week have exposed Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” mantra as the hollow platitude it always was. So it’s nice to see that, apart from...
Russia Targets Another Messaging App, May Ban Viber
Nikolai Nikiforov, the Russian Communications Minister, has said the government might ban Viber the same way it did Telegram. According to the minister, failure to comply with the...
Russia: Telegram Ban Failure Shows Banning Bitcoin is Impossible
Amid chaos and mass complaints, the Russian government may have to “ban Bitcoin” in order to successfully ban Telegram. Telegram Shrugs Off Failed Censorship The ‘solution’ to...
How Some Companies Are Bypassing Facebook’s ICO Ad Ban
Months after the Facebook crypto-related advertising ban, ads are still popping up here and there, promoting an array of different Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). It turns out that all...