BlogHide Resteemsirieland (25)in berlin • 6 years agoI was attacked in Berlin once. This is how it played outI’ve been assaulted once in my life, and I hope it remains the only time. I never did find out the reason for the assault, or who did it. I didn't report the incident afterwards, for reasons that…irieland (25)in cricket • 7 years agoCricket in Ireland...The Bangladeshi taxi driver in Dubai finds out I'm from Ireland and asks me if I know Kevin O'Brien. I don't. Who is he? "The cricket player!" says he, amazed that I don't know this. I tell him we…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years ago14 The Money CreatorsSo where does that leave us? In the early months of 2018, the bitcoin price bobbed around in the range around $10,000, cheering up developers who felt the cryptocurrency needed more time to develop…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years ago13 Bitcoin cash and Ripples of SubterfugeBitcoin has a built-in problem. Each new block is limited in size to one megabyte of information, which in effect limits the number of transactions in each block, meaning that the network can…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years ago12 The buildersFocusing on the price of bitcoin and its ups and downs, as tends to happen in media reporting about bitcoin, tends to miss out on the fact that an entire infrastructure has grown up around bitcoin.…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years ago11 What the f#*% is blockchain?The idea of a blockchain began to form in the early 1990s but it was Satoshi Nakamoto who incarnated the first working blockchain in 2009 with the launch of bitcoin. A blockchain is a type of…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years ago10 ChainalysisIn 2018, it’s still common for authorities to comment confidently that bitcoin is mostly used by criminals to launder money. The better educated understood that only a simple-minded criminal would…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years agoMemesvilleIt’s not a surprise that Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, suddenly finding himself the target of a media story, wore a slightly comical hangdog expression, and bitcoiners with Satoshi Namakomo-related…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years ago9 Satoshi NakamotoThere was good reason for Satoshi Nakamoto to disguise his real identity when he came up with the idea for bitcoin. Governments don’t take kindly to those who contravene state policy on the creation…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years ago8 The Internet of MoneyWhen the early Internet was being built, a philosophical question emerged: who should own the software? The radical fringe of the hippie generation of the 1960s, which crossed in places into the…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years ago7 Finance on steroidsThere was a time, within the last three decades, when financial news stayed in the financial press. Banking, thought to be work for conservative, cautious managers, was characterised by the 3-6-3…irieland (25)in winklevoss • 7 years ago6 The Winklevoss brothersIn the late 1990s, as people were discovering the potential of peer-to-peer networks on the internet, a site called FriendsReunited offered to re-unite you with former schoolmates, a kind of…irieland (25)in winklevoss • 7 years ago5 The early playersBitcoin’s early promoters relied initially on chat forums to build support, but found also some willing media support, mostly from digital culture blogs. Many of these early players also earned or…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years ago4 In exchange...In the early days of the internet, getting information into and out of the net was complicated, unless you knew some coding. Web browsers solved that problem, providing an interface between the user…irieland (25)in darknet • 7 years ago3 The dark netFor an underground online marketplace for drugs, guns and other illegal services and products, the Silk Road was an implausibly grand name. The idea, though, was brilliant, and built on two…irieland (25)in mtgox • 7 years ago2 The story of Mount GoxThe story of MtGox, the first major bitcoin site, is surely worthy of a film. The bitcoin exchange was but the newest version of a simple technology that was already rocking the entertainment…irieland (25)in bitcoin • 7 years ago1 Bitcoin: the first ten yearsOn Tuesday 28 November 2017, the Financial Times ran its first print headline story about bitcoin: “Bitcoin record triggers unease among traditional marketplaces”. The record increase referred to…irieland (25)in sleng • 7 years ago15 The Digital Dancehall EraFew grasped it at the time, but reggae is arguably the only style of music that effortlessly transcended the digital divide once synthesisers and programmable drums became part of the musical…irieland (25)in gregory • 7 years ago14 - They called it dancehallOkay, so maybe you've figured out where this is going as we head towards the digital breakthrough in the mid-1980s which totally divided reggae fans, many of whom regarded the new sounds as too…irieland (25)in reggae • 7 years ago13 - The DJ is here to stayVersion 'pon version... With a library of killer reggae cuts built through the 1970s, a good sound could play an original cut, a DJ version, an instrumental and a dub of the same tune. Take…
