Alternative Coins & Systems
The Right to Run a Node
The problem that exists in the Bitcoin environment today is reminiscent of society at large. For many years now, we [...]
A Discourse on Nodes
The definition that has propagated around the description of a Bitcoin node has led to a rather cultish ‘quasi-religion’. I [...]
Money Is Time and Energy
Many falsely believe that by simply producing more money or redistributing it, we would all suddenly have more wealth. It [...]
Satoshi NEVER Posted on Bitcointalk
It is a myth that all the posts on Bitcointalk (bitcointalk.org) from my account (Satoshi) are in fact mine and [...]
The Property Flaw of Lightning
Segregated Witness (SegWit) was said to be introduced to stop purported errors caused by malleability. The truth of the matter [...]
Ledgers and Design
Bookkeeping and accounting journals used within double-entry bookkeeping require write once read many (WORM) tables. Any accounting is posted entry [...]
Binance: The Untrusted Intermediary
Today, as I have done in the past, I set up a number of accounts with Binance based only on [...]
On Decentralisation
In a recent statement by SEC Commissioner Peirce, it was explained: A second area of concern is the lack of [...]
Cryptography and Bitcoin
Cryptography can be used to limit access, and may be restrictive. When a file is encrypted, it can only be [...]
Forking and Passing Off…
If you consider what most cryptocurrency proponents [2] are trying to do, you will see an attempt to exclude governments [...]
Myths of Decentralisation…
There is a completely false narrative that you do not hold bitcoin and that they are an intangible distributed across [...]
How Digital Signatures Work
Way back in 2006, I wrote a legal paper as part of my work with Northumbria University and my postgraduate [...]