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Liquid Bitcoin

Happy Halloween! Let's talk about the scariest thing in the tech world today. No, no, not bubbles, drones, or unicorns: Bitcoin. Seriously. (Mostly.) Whether you think it's a boondoggle scam, a liber

Bitcoin 2.0: Unleash The Sidechains

"Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet," <a target="_blank" href="http://startupboy.com/2014/04/01/the-fifth-protocol/">says</a> Naval Ravika

Google, Eich, Rice: The Evil That Tech Does

Techies hate politics. Well, no: we hate the <em>idea</em> of politics. Whenever I talk to pretty much anyone in the industry about politics as a sphere of human endeavor, from individual coders to z