"All models are wrong, some are useful." This phrase was coined by the statistician George E. P. Box to describe probabilistic models, but it also perfectly encapsulates all the mental models we use ...

While most payments executives have been fascinated by the spectacular year-long rise—and recent crash—in the value of Bitcoin, merchants that accept the cryptocurrency continue to struggle with a ...

C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup doesn’t like that Bitcoin was written in his programming language, at all. In a recent podcast interview, Stroustrup took a moment to explain how he felt about ...

Bitcoin is an open-source protocol that anybody can interact with. It is getting attention and attracting participation in different ways, whether it is through speculation, investing and sending ...

Bitcoin Pizza day is coming up on May 22, so now is a good time to take stock of how bitcoin has evolved since its inception. I’m teaching the first bitcoin class this semester at Texas A&M University ...

Lincoin Technologies, a Vancouver-based firm, has launched a new programming tool for the Bitcoin mining industry known as Rails. The software solution aims to enable Bitcoin miners to optimize their ...

Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel ...

Bitcoin 2025 joins America’s 250th celebration with a presidential partnership, 30,000 attendees and exclusive programming. In an interview with TheStreet Roundtable, Sean Hagan, Head of Media at BTC ...