If you consider what most cryptocurrency proponents [2] are trying to do, you will see an attempt to exclude governments and rights and create a system that cannot be controlled outside the dictation of technocratic…
The 51% Attack That Never Was
There are widespread mythologies concerning supposed attacks against Bitcoin (Bindseil et al., 2022), including ones that are promoted by people…
Twenty Years of a Bank Worker’s Life
Kumazawa Makoto, “Twenty Years of a Bank Worker’s Life”, on Kawabe Tomomi Putting his authentic dilemma more specifically in terms…
Anti-Trust
The problem with Ethereum and BTC groups is that they are anticorporate. They call themselves crypto capitalists (Ortiz, 2020). What…
Decentralisation
Abstract. A system such as Bitcoin operates using a proof-of-work-based consensus mechanism that many individuals have falsely claimed to limit…
The Vision for Bitcoin
Over the last decade, I have been dragged into innumerable arguments and debates, going back to those with James Donald…
Defining Scaling
Numerous arguments abound in regard to scaling blockchain-based systems such as Bitcoin or the BTC system (Khan, Jung, & Hashmani,…
Reliving an Ancient Past
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) consists of twenty-two provinces, four municipalities, five autonomous regions, and two special administrative regions,…
A Rational Argument around Nodes
There is a strange belief that non-mining systems can be nodes in Bitcoin (and, by extension, on the BTC [1]…
The Closing of Open Society: Part II
The Republic of Mozambique (hereafter Mozambique) is a sub-Saharan African nation on the Swahili coast. The country gained political independence…