Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech
Open Source
The real need for open-source software has been hijacked by a political agenda. I did not create Bitcoin as open-source [...]
How Digital Signatures Work
Way back in 2006, I wrote a legal paper as part of my work with Northumbria University and my postgraduate [...]
Looking the Other Way
Not everything of my story is good and positive, but it is not the one my detractors make out either. [...]
Mistakes Also Come when You Listen to Others…
Many of the multitudes of problems surrounding the implementation of Bitcoin come from my failure to explain things to people. [...]
On Civil Disobedience
I believe in law. To me, it holds the convictions of all that is valuable. Having said so, all systems [...]
Anarchy and the Foolish Belief in Assassination Markets
In 2008 and 2009, a group of people mistakenly thought that the world would be better off without banking. The [...]
Statement of Dec 27, 2019
Recently, we have received many questions and seen much public conjecture about what will happen in January 2020 with bitcoin [...]
Transparency and Government
There is an overwhelming amount of false information around Bitcoin and, in particular, on the topic of privacy or pseudonymous [...]
Proof of Assignment
The Bitcoin blockchain is an immutable audit trail, which does not mean that money cannot be seized or that illicit [...]
Digital Gold
It is interesting that a meme of digital gold has popped up around BTC over the last few years. The [...]
A Fundamental Misunderstanding
A few weeks ago, at CC Forum in London, Bobby Lee asked me to review his new product called Ballet. [...]
Merkle Trees and SPV
Merkle Trees By now, it should be well understood that Bitcoin utilises the concept of a Merkle tree to its [...]