Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech
Q&A/Written Interview — The answers — Part 1
I have been asked to do an AMA and will answer the questions posed to me. In total, I have [...]
Trust and Risk
Security matters, but not so we can eliminate all risk, but so we can have trust. Even if we could [...]
Stable by design
We have a fundamental flaw within the developer led model of Bitcoin. This problem is the same in many aspects [...]
Misconceptions surrounding copyright
Many think that when you pay a company to create something for you that you naturally own the copyright. This [...]
The Gamma Monstrosity & the Probability Deception
For some time now, I have allowed people to continue with this foolish and unscientific notion of gamma in the [...]
Why Scaling on-Chain Works
This is a very quick summary of why scaling on-chain works. In 2009, the effective limit in software was 32MB — although [...]
A diatribe on Bitcoin, Trust and the economy of security (redux)
It was April 27th, 2013 when I first published an earlier version of this, and it is timely to start [...]
Worm-a-nomics
Or the invasion of the coin snatchers…. For every 1 BCH deposited (these are actually destroyed), 100 WHC are created [...]
Repudiation
Non-repudiation is the process of ensuring that the parties to a transaction cannot deny (this is repudiate) that a transaction [...]
Vampire Securities from beyond the Wormhole
It is common for Omni and Counterparty style tokens to say how they back the underlying security using the one [...]
The paradox of the Übermensch
It is simple to be disappointed with the common person. I have written recently about the bandwagon fallacy. When I [...]
Death and taxes, it is time to kill off mythical beasts
I have a hard lesson for many people within the bitcoin and crypto currency community and that is that tax [...]