Alternative Coins & Systems

There is this Bitcoin thing that doesn’t need trusted intermediaries. So, what do people do? Well, you build a series [...]

Unfortunately, a major problem stems from a lack of understanding of many common terms today. Turing completeness does not require [...]

In today’s post, I shall endeavour to explain some of the reasoning behind how I created Bitcoin and why I [...]

When I initially launched Bitcoin in 2009, I noted two ways of sending bitcoin [1]: There are two ways to [...]

Last week, I instructed my lawyers to send a series of formal legal letters to a very specific list of [...]

Several individuals in what is termed the “cryptocurrency space” have started to promote a misleading and false premise: that open-source [...]

The other day, I responded in a manner that seemed irrationally angry. I did so purposely, to kick the hornet’s [...]

Size creates its own form of advantage. Walmart leveraged the long-tail effect in the same way that Amazon has done [...]

Coinbase is currently facing several lawsuits. One of the lawsuits involves XRP and Ripple. Coinbase will likely argue that they [...]

I used the word vote in the Bitcoin white paper three times. I used the notion of anthropomorphism in explaining [...]

In 1996, Judge Easterbrook presented and spoke to the University of Chicago Law School. In his speech, he reflected the [...]

Many people within the ‘cryptocurrency communities’ have made a religion of “code is law”, the flawed methodology of Lawrence Lessig [...]