What is the internet of things? The internet of things (IoT) connects electronic devices to the internet, creating a vast network of connect... (Read More)

The term altcoin, or alternative currency, is an imprecise method of labeling a wide variety of cryptocurrencies possessing entirely differe... (Read More)

Summary Mastercoin was the first bitcoin 2.0 solution to utilize the bitcoin blockchain to secure transactions. This broadened the horizons ... (Read More)

Summary Bitcoin represents approximately 35% of total cryptocurrency market capitalization, the other 65% contributed by 100s of alternative... (Read More)

Summary Note: This article was written in 2015 and describes what Ethereum might look like post launch.  Obviously, Ethereum was a massive ... (Read More)

Introduction Ripple is a method for transferring fiat currency cheaply, quickly and safely. Whereas bitcoin might be termed a revolutionary ... (Read More)

Bitcoin has come to mainstream online brokerages thanks to the launch of futures contracts by both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and... (Read More)

As any holder knows, bitcoin is a volatile beast.  Staggering price increases can be quickly followed by heartrending drops, and periods of... (Read More)

A cryptocurrency derivative is a contract that may be executed for a certain amount of bitcoin or some other crypto.  When a trader purchas... (Read More)

Are you thinking about buying bitcoin or some other digital currency?  If so, you will most likely need to set up an account at a bitcoin e... (Read More)

Bitcoin was created in large part to return financial sovereignty to individuals who, armed with bitcoin and a private key, hold sole custod... (Read More)

Picking the right crypto exchange can be confusing, but we at bitreview have done much of the heavy lifting to make your life easier!  It i... (Read More)

Buying Bitcoin is Now Pretty Easy Have you meant to buy bitcoin for the last three or so years, but procrastinated because the whole process... (Read More)

The p2p Lending Market The peer to peer lending market started in 2005 with the launch of UK's Zopa, followed quickly by mega-platforms Pros... (Read More)

When you think of a wallet you most likely think of a folding slab of leather with slots to store cash, credit cards, IDs, and various half-... (Read More)

Bitcoin security, internet security While bitcoin security breaches have dominated many headlines there is a larger dynamic in play which is... (Read More)

Bitcoin and its critics In our What is Bitcoin article we explain how Bitcoin serves as both a store of value and a means of value transfer.... (Read More)

The mission statement on Factom's homepage is rather bland: "Factom is using the technology behind bitcoin to change how businesses manage d... (Read More)

Summary It should be mentioned right at the start that researching BitShares can be likened to running blindfolded through a maze. It is a c... (Read More)

Summary At bitreview, we deliberately choose altcoins for review that have offered a unique concept to the cryptocurrency market, both to il... (Read More)

Summary Litecoin was one of the first successful alternative currencies to bitcoin. It introduced a new method of mining known as Scrypt mea... (Read More)

Summary We all love Bitcoin but man, that volatility sure can cause heartburn. Enter Tether, a cryptocurrency unit meant to represent one, a... (Read More)

You will remember (actually, most likely you will not) our desperately-in-need-of-a-rewrite article on Ethereum, in which we described the ... (Read More)

How bitcoin transactions work A bitcoin is really just a string of public addresses. Every time a bitcoin is sent to a different address, th... (Read More)

Just a simple question containing three little words, four little syllables, but to the bitcoin enthusiast it is a question that evokes pani... (Read More)

Bitcoin Regulation Perhaps the single largest impediment to wider adoption of bitcoin is the lack of a regulatory framework governing the ma... (Read More)

The question of how to tax bitcoin has been complicated by the fact that regulators are still not entirely sure what bitcoin is. Is it a com... (Read More)

There have been a flurry of articles suggesting terror organizations are using bitcoin to fund their activities. While it seems a bit im... (Read More)

Tim Berners-Lee holds as good a claim to inventing the internet as anyone. He was the first to implement a successful communication between ... (Read More)

Venture capital is pouring into bitcoin at record pace, and the media seems to have caught the bitcoin bug, with every major publication hav... (Read More)

Remittances, the transfer of money by foreign workers to family or friends back home, is one of the largest sources of capital inflows to de... (Read More)

In February 2014, bitcoin's most popular exchange Mt. Gox imploded in spectacular fashion, taking with it approximately $450 million in cust... (Read More)

When the question of anonymity in bitcoin arises, it is usually due to some negative aspect - black market purchases, ransom, theft.  Outli... (Read More)

  Distributed Consensus through Bitcoin Mining Bitcoin mining is based on a methodology developed by Adam Back called Hashcash, utilizi... (Read More)

Cloud Mining refers to a contractual agreement specifying the terms by which a mining company will mine bitcoin for a customer. The customer... (Read More)

The mining pool operator is an intermediary node between its members and the blockchain. It is the role of the operator to both efficiently ... (Read More)

Bitcoin's Missing Piece One of the main criticisms of the bitcoin protocol is that it is limited to the transfer of bitcoin itself, that it ... (Read More)

A blockchain refers to a public ledger in which the latest block, itself comprised of unfiled transactions, is added chronologically as the ... (Read More)

To raise the cap or not to raise the cap?  That is the question. The bitcoin protocol was initially designed to allow 32 MB of data in tran... (Read More)

Nothing exemplifies the problems inherent in monetizing internet video content like webchat pornography.  Working in webchat porn is hard b... (Read More)

Why should you accept bitcoin? Imagine you sell gourmet sausages, both online and from a small boutique storefront. You have integrated all ... (Read More)

New York's Bitlicense has become quite the lightning rod for both criticism and praise concerning governmental efforts regulate bitcoin in p... (Read More)

Some of the innovative applications for blockchain and bitcoin will only emerge after the technologies have had time to develop, much like i... (Read More)

  Would you like to transfer money as quickly and easily as sending a text message? Well then, meet GetGems, the smart little messagin... (Read More)

You'll perhaps remember that the amount of bitcoin released to miners as reward for settling transactions has been preprogrammed to cut in h... (Read More)

I read Hemingway's In Our Time my Junior year in high school with the fantastic Mr. S Farmans, who inspired in me a love of literature in pa... (Read More)

How difficult it is to explain bitcoin to the uninitiated. My father, with whom I have given multiple bitcoin lectures, whose own son produc... (Read More)

Bitcoin Governance Behind the debate on blocksize is the larger question of governance and consensus. To a certain extent, bitcoin can be co... (Read More)

Fred Wilson, writing in AVC, nicely sums up the ideological underpinnings of the current scaling debate: "Should Bitcoin be Gold or should ... (Read More)

So btcd started due to Conformal CEO Jake Yocom-Piatt's frustration with so-called developer centralization within bitcoin: developers who... (Read More)

One of my main takeaways from 30+ hours worth of Chris Derose and Josh Unseth's podcast "bitcoin uncensored" is that the bitcoin blockchain ... (Read More)

The Story of Cryptsy Lucky7Coin was an altcoin offered on the exchange Cryptsy. Like most of the 150+ coins that were available for trade, L... (Read More)

Bitcoin margin trading permits investors to hold positions greater than their account equity would otherwise allow. For leveraged buying of ... (Read More)

Multi-Signature Wallets We've noticed a really interesting three-point pattern in the bitcoin exchange marketplace that goes something like ... (Read More)

What is Cold Storage? Cold storage is a method of holding private keys in a completely offline environment, out of reach of cyber thieves an... (Read More)

Provably fair gambling harnesses some of the same cryptographic proofs utilized in bitcoin transaction authentication and mining to show, be... (Read More)

What is Augur? Augur is a prediction market platform allowing users to wager on the outcome of future events, with a mechanism that balances... (Read More)

Prediction markets leverage the power of the crowd to predict the outcome of future events. Presidential elections or primaries winners, the... (Read More)

So you have perused our different pages (or someone else's) extolling the virtues of bitcoin in general and bitcoin gambling products in par... (Read More)

Bitcoin Gambling Wanna bet? A number of online bitcoin casinos, sportsbooks and poker rooms are popping up that take advantage of the bitco... (Read More)

Bitcoin Blackjack Pure bitcoin blackjack utilizes much of the same cryptographic technology that underpins the bitcoin protocol itself to of... (Read More)

Summary Over the past 3-4 years, Bitcoin Dice has become the embodiment of bitcoin's potential to transform the online gambling experience. ... (Read More)

  Summary Cryptopay offers bitcoin Mastercard debit cards. You can sign up and get a virtual card in an instant, or order pin and/or chip p... (Read More)

There are a number of reasons a trader might prefer trading Forex - or any of the mainstream asset classes for that matter - using bitcoin r... (Read More)

Bitcoin Roulette Bitcoin offers Roulette enthusiasts three advantages over the mainstream online roulette experience. First, depositing is i... (Read More)