Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech
Banking on Bitcoin
Banking on Bitcoin There is this myth around banking and bitcoin. Any quick search will show thousands of sites and people [...]
The crypto-ring of Gyges
Plato covered the problems of true anonymity in The Republic. In this story, he detailed a fictional character called Gyges [...]
Black Mirror
There is an episode of Black Mirror called Nosedive that explains some of the reason for the creation of bitcoin [...]
Limited change to bring stability
Something people fail to understand about bitcoin is it is intentionally limited in what it can do and how it [...]
The cult of Decentralisation
Bitcoin was first announced in 2008. After the software went live in early 2009 an announcement reinforcing the statements of [...]
Money Must First Be Stable
I’m writing this in a more accessible format; that is a blog rather than an academic paper. Many people often [...]
The myths of Bitcoin
Bitcoin is Peer to Peer electronic cash. This is it first and foremost. In this I am going to address [...]
Negotiable Instruments
From Simmons v. London Joint Stock Bank [1]; the House of Lords overturned the lower court on appeal to set [...]
Lightning is malleable… Steel is not
A little-known fact is that even Bitcoin is a security. The mistake is thinking that this is the issue. Bitcoin [...]
Iron and Steel
Iron is a pure chemical element as well as being a rather malleable metal. It may be better than many [...]
OP Codes and the push to confuse.
OP Codes and the push to confuse. A certain group of BTC Core developers have their (one day but not in [...]