2019
Statement of Dec 27, 2019
Recently, we have received many questions and seen much public conjecture about what will happen in January 2020 with bitcoin [...]
Work Is Infinite…
Many in Silicon Valley and others like to promote the false concept of artificial intelligence (AI) and, specifically, how AI [...]
Transparency and Government
There is an overwhelming amount of false information around Bitcoin and, in particular, on the topic of privacy or pseudonymous [...]
Proof of Assignment
The Bitcoin blockchain is an immutable audit trail, which does not mean that money cannot be seized or that illicit [...]
Digital Gold
It is interesting that a meme of digital gold has popped up around BTC over the last few years. The [...]
A Fundamental Misunderstanding
A few weeks ago, at CC Forum in London, Bobby Lee asked me to review his new product called Ballet. [...]
Merkle Trees and SPV
Merkle Trees By now, it should be well understood that Bitcoin utilises the concept of a Merkle tree to its [...]
Bitcoin Fights Corruption
The battle for Bitcoin is very simple, and it goes right back to the days before I launched it. My [...]
If Gold Turned to Lead
“Imagine if gold turned to lead when stolen. If the thief gives it back, it turns to gold again…” Bitcoin [...]
Taxing Times…
One of the key aspects of Bitcoin is that it is set in stone; the protocol does not change. Many [...]
Simplified Payment Verification
In the Bitcoin white paper, I specified how it is possible to verify payments without running a full network node. [...]
Satoshi; or, The Solution to Nakamoto’s Dilemma
Tominaga Nakamoto (1715–46) was a Japanese philosopher trained in the Osaka merchant academy called the Kaitokudō. His research and writings [...]