Alternative Coins & Systems


Forks as a demerger, or a split as a copy?
By Craig Wright | 20 Mar 2019 | Alternative Coins & Systems, Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

There is a lie and myth of decentralised consensus where a small group of developers alters a protocol and says

Finite State Machines in Script
By Craig Wright | 18 Mar 2019 | Alternative Coins & Systems, Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

This note provides methods for constructing deterministic and non-deterministic finite state automata in Bitcoin Script. The “best” method produces a

Learning Script

The foundation of recursion comes in 6 functions. OP_ADD and OP_1ADD encapsulate point 4 and point 2 (below) respectively. Point

Why Lightning will never be currency, and why BSV matters

Under the provisions of FinCEN, any exchange accepting and transmitting virtual currency is a money transmitter [1]. The law is

The labour fallacy of mining

I have noted a good number of people hold on to the same common fallacy as was promoted by Marx.

Proof of (unregistered) security
By Craig Wright | 04 Mar 2019 | Alternative Coins & Systems, Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

There have been many people pushing proof of stake as an alternative to proof of work. They claim that proof

Clickwrap smart contracts

Clickwrap contracts are functionally the same as the shrink wrap method in software licenses and other product offerings, but formed

Forex accounting in script

Continuing with business ideas that can be implemented within Bitcoin using the scripting options of BSV, I will detail the

The start of Metanet
By Craig Wright | 14 Feb 2019 | Alternative Coins & Systems, Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

Way back in the depths of the late 90s, I was a young brash 20-something with this concept that I

The false lure of anonymity
By Craig Wright | 12 Feb 2019 | Alternative Coins & Systems, Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

One of the strangest things for me comes from the retrogression into things like proof of stake and the associated

The story of Bitcoin, continued
By Craig Wright | 09 Feb 2019 | Alternative Coins & Systems, Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

My first marriage ended in October 2010. It had been rocky for a time before it ended. I mentioned in my last

Careful what you wish for…

I moved to the UK in October 2015. We still had business interests there, so I would fly to and

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