Alternative Coins & Systems

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

The problem that exists in the Bitcoin environment today is reminiscent of society at large. For many years now, we

The definition that has propagated around the description of a Bitcoin node has led to a rather cultish ‘quasi-religion’. I