Alternative Coins & Systems
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
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