By Jonathan Laird Originally published on The Block, July 15, 2020 Quick takes: Usability is a critical requirement for cryptocurrency…

By Jonathan Laird Originally published on The Block, July 22, 2019 Quick Takes Economists generally describe money as a medium…

By Jonathan Laird Originally published on The Block, April 17, 2019 Quick Takes The creation of specialized mining hardware (ASIC…

Last Tuesday at 04:01:26 UTC, the Grin mainnet went live.  Grin is a cryptocurrency, but unlike most, it is not…

In the conventional financial system, privacy depends on keeping transactions known only by the parties involved, but Satoshi Nakamoto’s design…

The Bitcoin network went live ten years ago today.  In those very early days of Bitcoin, the nascent cryptocurrency was…

On October 31, 2008, a user going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto sent a message to The Cryptography Mailing List…

Following the last update to Google Chrome, signing in to any Google service will also sign the user in to…

As a long-time Google Chrome user, I recently started switching back to Firefox. Firefox several years ago was a bit…

In an effort to improve my online security, I recently started testing Firefox Multi-Account Containers.  The concept is fairly simple. …