Sojourner

A relic of the 90s Internet era, Sojourner has been plying his writing trade for more than 25 years across a diverse range of disciplines. Professionally a non-profit development project manager with a focus on accountability and performance, Sojourner has also been an analyst and journalist in Asia, Africa and Europe. He continues to freelance in creative writing and has a new-found interest in all things "crypto".

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News

Japan set to win race to regulate Bitcoin exchanges

Officials from Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) have announced that it will begin “full surveillance” of cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the country. According to the Japan Times, the government agency will ensure that exchanges for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have proper internal systems to protect customer assets. A 30-member surveillance team built from agency and…

September 28, 20170Comments

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DIGI: the future of digital goods

The multi-billion industry of digital goods is growing rapidly, with market research experts predicting that the value of the digital goods market could exceed $500 billion in 2019. That’s more than three times the current market cap of all cryptocurrencies combined. With the digital age truly underway, publishers and retailers continue to reshape the global e-commerce…

September 14, 20170Comments

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin bubble / dotcom bubble. Are they really the same?

Howard Marks, who famously predicted the dotcom implosion, warned investors to stay away from cryptocurrencies. He compared them to similar “bubbles” of the 17th century Tulip mania and 18th century South Sea Company. Marks is hardly the first to dismiss Bitcoin’s epic rise as a mere bubble – the economic term to describe a highly-positive…

September 14, 20170Comments

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Battered dark markets look away from Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s early emergence was little short of a libertarian’s dream. It was a new kind of money and it deliberately excluded the disgraced banking institution. It was touted as a public, open-sourced way of paying quickly, cheaply, without ever having to trust anyone. It would take years before Bitcoin reached the lips of the “mainstream public”.…

September 11, 20170Comments

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Crypto altruism on the rise

It wasn’t that long ago when the global economic structure was caught up in an almost cyclical meltdown. The rioters were at the gates of Wall Street, Americans were made homeless almost overnight, an obscene amount of money had just disappeared. It will never really be known if these events spurred the ideas behind Satoshi Nakamoto’s…

September 9, 20170Comments

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Bitcoin

What fork? BTC as usual in Southeast Asia

Almost two weeks have passed since the “hard fork”, one of the most significant events in recent times for the Bitcoin network. It was a partial culmination of years of fierce debate surrounding contentious network scaling attempts. Citing loss of confidence in a majority decision to reach compromise via the Segwit2x proposal, a group decided to…

August 13, 20170Comments

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Bitcoin Featured

Unpublished Satoshi emails reveal early Bitcoin insight

A series of email correspondence from 2009-2011 with the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, has recently surfaced on the Internet. An anonymous researcher, CipherionX, posted the emails on the bitcointalk forum on August 11th, having retrieved them from the former Bitcoin Core developer Mike Hearn. Curiously, the first email and reply were already shared on…

August 11, 20170Comments

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Nametoken in a bid to revamp domain name industry

The business of buying, selling and registering of domain names is an industry almost as old as the world wide web itself. But it is currently entrenched in a highly centralized structure, managing more than 326 million domain names as of March 2016. This is a figure that grew more than 10 percent compared to…

August 1, 20170Comments

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World’s most popular Bitcoin mixer shuts down

BitMixer, the largest Bitcoin “tumbler,” on Sunday announced an end to its operations, bringing a close to over three and a half years of mixing Bitcoins for anonymous clients. The announcement on the bitcointalk forum came in the same month that global enforcement authorities shut down darkmarkets AlphaBay and Hansa, from which many believe the…

July 28, 20170Comments

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ICO Due Diligence – are you wasting your time?

ICOs – not just another type of investment opportunity They’re coming at you thick and fast, a new one being touted as the next big thing amid the gathering hail of pre-announcements and pre-launches. Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) are all the rage, promising incredible returns quicker than the time it takes to build, develop and market…

July 27, 20170Comments

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