(part 1 in a series on the impact of the Satoshi’s invention.  Part 2., Part 3.) There are several things that Bitcoin achieved – the money, and the invention of the blockchain being the obvious ones that people talk about. But it is in the process…

Whether you’re a newcomer to the crypto and block chain space or a long-in-the-tooth veteran, Coinscrum’s Members Club is our new bi-monthly, Tuesday evening social get-together where ideas can be freely shared over a beer or two. Every so often well also bring along someone…

Coinscrum {Social} Christmas Shindig 2015 will surely go down as bitcoin’s “Year of Indecision”. We’ve had BIPs coming out of our ears as quickly as blocks have become stuffed fuller than a Norfolk Bronze turkey on Christmas morning. And even though the world has now…

Satoshi Nakamoto drew from the history of cryptocurrencies since David Chaum’s seminal blinding formula in the 1980s.  He postulated that the flaw with existing approaches to cryptocurrencies was that a single powerful attacker could undermine and destroy the system.  In order to to defeat the…

Growing Social Architecture For the fourth of our Tools for the Future series, well be focusing on the socio-economic side of the Blockchain. Were very pleased to welcome two* superb thought leaders in the field; Daniel Hassan from Robin Hood Coop and Jessi Baker from…

The world is full of opinion. The internet has made this abundantly clear. We sometimes treat this as a revelation: “who does this obanana think he is, the president of America?” and other stupid comments are somehow treated as top news stories, even though they…

Originally posted in: Cryptonomics David Andolfatto, Vice President of the St Louis Fed, published a most interesting post yesterday Fedcoin: On the Desirability of a Government Cryptocurrency. Andolfatto’s post is itself in reference to JP Koning’s Fedcoin piece of last October. Back then, I wrote…

Originally posted in: E-International Relations   In Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic 1993 sci-fi novel Red Mars, a pioneering group of scientists establish a colony on Mars. Some imagine it as a chance for a new life, run on entirely different principles from the chaotic Earth….

Distributed financial technologies: more WMDs or new WMCs? 1-5 pm Workshop with Ian Grigg & Robin Hood 7-9 pm Starting with a question: Are financial derivatives WMDs or WMCs? At 21:00 there will a screening of the documentary ,Ulterior States by Tomer Kantor.

The first London public screening of Ulterior States. www.iamsatoshi.com/ulterior-states-documentary

WED 5TH AUGUST – BITCOIN LAUNCH PARTY! The Silver Bullet – Londons first late-night pub and live music venue gets bitcoin-enabled! Come celebrate the launch of our Satoshi Point bitcoin ATM with some special bitcoin movie screenings, presentations and live music from the Fork, The…

Tools for the Future #3 It seems like only yesterday that he took to the same stage but were pleased to welcome back the ever popular Andreas M Antonopoulos to Coinscrum to share his latest musings on all things Bitcoin and beyond. As a bitcoin…