Alternative Coins & Systems
Banking Old Wine in New Bottles
There is this Bitcoin thing that doesn’t need trusted intermediaries. So, what do people do? Well, you build a series [...]
Infinite and Unbounded
Unfortunately, a major problem stems from a lack of understanding of many common terms today. Turing completeness does not require [...]
Bitcoin as a Security
In today’s post, I shall endeavour to explain some of the reasoning behind how I created Bitcoin and why I [...]
Offline Addressing
When I initially launched Bitcoin in 2009, I noted two ways of sending bitcoin [1]: There are two ways to [...]
Bitcoin White Paper Statement of Jan 29, 2021
Last week, I instructed my lawyers to send a series of formal legal letters to a very specific list of [...]
Open Source and Liability
Several individuals in what is termed the “cryptocurrency space” have started to promote a misleading and false premise: that open-source [...]
A Comment on Social Media, Software Developers, and Silicon Valley Corporations
The other day, I responded in a manner that seemed irrationally angry. I did so purposely, to kick the hornet’s [...]
Strategic Advantage and Finding Opportunities
Size creates its own form of advantage. Walmart leveraged the long-tail effect in the same way that Amazon has done [...]
About Coinbase
Coinbase is currently facing several lawsuits. One of the lawsuits involves XRP and Ripple. Coinbase will likely argue that they [...]
The Problem with Anthropomorphism and Personification
I used the word vote in the Bitcoin white paper three times. I used the notion of anthropomorphism in explaining [...]
Cryptocurrency and the Law of the Horse
In 1996, Judge Easterbrook presented and spoke to the University of Chicago Law School. In his speech, he reflected the [...]
Is Code Really Law?
Many people within the ‘cryptocurrency communities’ have made a religion of “code is law”, the flawed methodology of Lawrence Lessig [...]