Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech
Forks as a demerger, or a split as a copy?
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
This note provides methods for constructing deterministic and non-deterministic finite state automata in Bitcoin Script. The “best” method produces a [...]
Free Speech
Free speech is not the right to be heard on any platform but rather limitations set by governments and authorities [...]
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 [...]
Proof
The code-is-law movement is a pernicious attack on freedom. There is no definitive means to assess truth through a computer [...]
Profiting from privacy
It is interesting how we are slowly moving away from the paradigm of selling user data for money. We can [...]
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. [...]
The myth of forks
When I removed myself from public view towards the end of 2010 and 2011, it was as I was rather [...]
Proof of (unregistered) security
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 [...]
Schnorr
Most of cryptocurrency efforts has been defined since Silk Road as one attempt after another to alter Bitcoin from a [...]