irieland (25)in #berlin • 7 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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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.…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…
