Blockchain is a super top topic right now, which is something we can be very happy about. This makes it a good time to look at how we got here and remind ourselves what the potential actually is. Where do the valid use-cases stop and…

We’re pleased to welcome Chris Monteiro (www.twitter.com/Deku_shrub) to take the mic. Chris is a researcher and a frequent contributor to Wikipedia. The topic of this event will be: Darknet markets, facts vs fictionSummary: We are in the middle of an online revolution in the trade…

This week were pleased to welcome the organisers and members of the London Open Bazaar meetup group to Coinscrum {Social} where they’ve arranged for the projects creator and lead, Brian Hoffman, to beam in via Skype to give us an update on where the project…

Whether you’re new to the crypto scene or a veteran, Coinscrum’s Tuesday night social is an opportunity for like minded people to get together, chew the fat over a beer and plan the future of economic interaction. We welcome everyone, whether local to London or…

Whether you’re new to the crypto scene or a veteran, Coinscrum’s Tuesday night social is an opportunity for like minded people to get together, chew the fat over a beer and plan the future of economic interaction. We welcome everyone, whether local to London or…

Whether you’re new to the crypto scene or a veteran, Coinscrum’s Tuesday night social is an opportunity for like minded people to get together, chew the fat over a beer and plan the future of economic interaction. We welcome everyone, whether local to London or…

Written and Filmed by: Tomer Kantor   In the last while, Bitcoin and Kenya, have been making the headlines (again), in Western media. First, it was Bitpesa, a Bitcoin digital exchange platform that got blocked by Safaricom. The reason Safaricom and their product Mpesa is…

Whether you’re new to the crypto scene or a veteran, Coinscrum’s Tuesday night social is an opportunity for like minded people to get together, chew the fat over a beer and plan the future of economic interaction. We welcome everyone, whether local to London or…

Financial cryptography is what we sometimes call the space between finance and cryptography, which is a pretty big spectrum. But fun and exciting nonetheless! There is a lot of prior work, extending back to the 1980s, and a lot of different threads. Following is a…

Whether you’re new to the crypto scene or a veteran, Coinscrum’s Tuesdays are for you to be heard, meet like minded people, connect to the scene and, have a mid-week drink and a smoke. We welcome everyone, whether local to London or travelling through it,…

(Author’s note.  This is the third in a series of posts within a grander vision. Part 1. Part 2.) Pressed Flower Money I spent 20 years trying to get a date with Ricardo. There were two huge problems. One: financial cryptography was banking. Banking was done by banks,…

(part 2 in a series on the impact of the Bitcoin thing. Cheater’s tip – the tl;dr is at the bottom.  Part 1. Part 3.) An under-appreciated but perhaps even more interesting thing that Satoshi Nakamoto achieved is this: Bitcoin has coalesced the financial cryptography community –…