Crypto Community

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.

Rise of the machines: Bots on Twitter

Some recent experiments have thrown up some interesting results in regards to the use of bots on Twitter. Bots are not a new addition to social media. One only...

Follow Friday: @cryptoblood_

For this week’s Follow Friday, we spoke to @cryptoblood_. He’s a crypto enthusiast who’s active on Twitter and runs a YouTube series uploading daily videos. Before entering the cryptocurrency...

The megaphone of Bitcoin SV

Twitter poll results time folks! Yesterday, we asked you whether we should listen to the voices of Craig Wright and his partner Calvin Ayre or whether we should just...

Patents: Not always a virtue

Open source software has changed the world more than many of us know. Linux is the most widely used operating system in the world, without the majority of us...

Multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes

Multi-level marketing (MLM) is often compared to pyramid or Ponzi schemes. MLM schemes work on a referral system. If I join the business and get friends and family to...

The death of ICOs?

The ICO hype has died down a lot in recent months. For a moment in 2017, it seemed as though there would be no end to them. People built...

Banking the unbanked with cryptocurrencies

Having 2 billion people around the world unable to access a bank account – referred to as unbanked – is a shocking statistic. For us, banks are a daily part of...

Security in cryptocurrencies

Whilst many people’s cryptocurrency holdings have diminished over the past year, there was a point last Christmas where many people were making extraordinary amounts of money. Since then, many...

Christmas crypto books to buy

Buying Christmas presents for fans of cryptocurrencies can be a little tricky. However, there are a plethora of books that cover the history of cryptography and the theory behind...

Lessons to learn from the recent sell-off

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to decline in $ value (apart from Faketoshi’s). Many people have probably told you to hodl over on Twitter. Many more have said this...

Follow Friday: @dum

This week we spoke to @dum, one of the nicest people in the crypto space. He is probably most well known as the host of S**tcoin Talk, a YouTube...

Happy 5th birthday Dogecoin!

Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of Dogecoin, one of the most famous altcoins in history. Created by Jackson Palmer, the coin was never supposed to be...