Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech
Taxing Bitcoin — Ordinary and tax concepts of “Money”
Continuing the look into the use of Bitcoin (BCH) as money we look at the legal definition of “money”. In [...]
Myths of permission-less
In the world of Bitcoin there are many false narratives and myths. This started with the myth of decentralisation. In [...]
Taxing Bitcoin — Introduction.
Bitcoin is money, but it is also a ledger, a commodity and a token. It is all these things and [...]
Burning and why it matters that it is stopped
First, we need to note that Bitcoin is an economic system and in economics, incentives and intent matter. The loss [...]
Neural Network Threshold Oracles
The main advantage to a system’s engineering approach is the ease with which it can be automated. Various inputs and [...]
The Bitcoin Future
Right now, disk storage doubles each year in capacity. CPU power doubles each 18 months. Fibre speeds and capacity double [...]
Hearsay in the Blockchain world
In law, when presenting evidence to a court, there exists a rule on the exclusion of hearsay as evidence. [...]
OpSec and the Bitcoin business
There are a number of specialist topics in organisational OPSEC and concepts that need to be defined before going into [...]
Non-Repudiation — Does this exist?
There is a definitional distinction between the legal use of the term “non-repudiation” and the common use that has taken [...]
Effective Enforcement in the Vastly Distributed Wild Wild Web
Some time ago Hilary E Pearson (1996) noted that, “in many cases, liability will depend upon how a court faced [...]
Managing Blockchain Automata
This umbrella document describes a distributed platform open to public participation for managing the automation of tasks that interfaces with [...]
Phases of the Bitcoin system
The Bitcoin system may be broken down into the following “phases”: Mining; Holding Bitcoin; and Transferring Bitcoin. Each of these [...]