'If Not Bitcoin, Then What?'

Does Bitcoin offer a way of removing a crucial means of control from illegitimate Authority?

The UK’s first Bitcoin conference took place on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd of October last week. Held in Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms, a neo-classical building with a portico and a pediment sitting on four Doric columns which themselves stand on three elegant Georgian arches facing the street and single bay arches on either side of the protruding facad…