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Ross Chalmers
Operations Manager

Ross first discovered Bitcoin as an undergraduate at the University of Sussex in 2013. Since then, the self-confessed Game of Thrones superfan has travelled extensively before returning to academic studies with Leiden University in the Netherlands to complete his MA. His focus was on the philosophies and groups underpinning the Bitcoin movement, Crypto Anarchy and the CypherPunks.

Do conferences provide value for money?

If you have ever looked into attending conferences related to Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, or blockchain, you might have been surprised to see the cost involved. Tickets often cost close to...

February 21 2019

Will JPM Coin have a ripple effect on XRP?

After years of criticising Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, Jamie Dimon has suddenly changed his tune and JP Morgan has announced its own version of a “cryptocurrency” known as JPM Coin. The...

February 15 2019

What if Bitcoin maximalists are proved wrong?

Bitcoin maximalists often deride any other cryptocurrency. Ethereum often takes the main brunt of this derision as it is the second largest cryptocurrency (we can ignore Ripple, as for...

February 7 2019

If Bitcoin is a new form of life…

Trendsetter and cypherpunk Jameson Lopp recently described the Bitcoin ecosystem as “a new form of life.” My favourite reference from his quite accurate analogy is full nodes representing white blood cells to...

February 5 2019

Anarchy and free markets in action

Despite many attempts to clamp down on the crypto space, there is still quite a gap left for cryptocurrencies and individuals to act without the control of regulators. Anonymous...

February 5 2019

Cryptography: The key to cryptocurrency

Cryptography is the technique of using encryption to keep your messages private. For thousands of years, people have used ciphers to hide their communications. With the rise of the...

February 4 2019

Bitcoin enters the record books

Sadly (or not, depending on the way you view it), Bitcoin has created a new record by entering the longest bear market the cryptocurrency space has ever seen. On...

February 3 2019

Nation states and cryptocurrencies

News, whether fake or true, consistently filters through of nation states either banning Bitcoin or creating their own centralised cryptocurrency. But why do both stories appear so often? Bitcoin...

February 2 2019

The battle for privacy in cryptocurrencies

With Litecoin’s Charlie Lee announcing that they are looking into adding new privacy features, the battle for privacy from the basis of crypto anarchy rumbles on. Privacy for many...

February 1 2019

The BitTorrent ICO bucks the market trend

ICOs have received a lot of criticism over the past year. Yet when BitTorrent partnered with Tron and Binance, those ICO worries seemed to disappear, as their ICO sold...

January 30 2019

Roger Ver and shady marketing

Ever used Bitcoin.com? If you haven’t, Bitcoin.com is a domain run by early evangelist Roger Ver. Roger was, for a long time, one of the early believers in Bitcoin,...

January 26 2019

Is the Bitcoin baby maturing?

The golden goose that Bitcoin has been chasing, an ETF, has once again been cancelled. This was unsurprising to many, though one could have expected more of a reaction...

January 25 2019
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