Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech
The Problem with Anthropomorphism and Personification
I used the word vote in the Bitcoin white paper three times. I used the notion of anthropomorphism in explaining
The Myth of Bitcoin as a Voting System
There lies an error in many people’s fundamental understanding of Bitcoin, and any blockchain system, that has been propagated by
Bitcoin’s Model of Capitalism
Some people think that Bitcoin is a system designed to act outside of state and society. Others believe that it
What Proof-of-Work Is Used for (in Bitcoin)
Proof-of-work has become fetishised and overly worshipped by some in the ‘cryptocurrency communities’ and when it comes to Bitcoin. Their
Keys ≠ Identity
In mathematics and logic, there are many functions that act only one-way. Bitcoin is based on many such functions. For
What Is Censorship Resistance?
Bitcoin has nothing to do with ‘censorship resistance’, and it never did. The entire term is rather asinine. The only
Cryptocurrency and the Law of the Horse
In 1996, Judge Easterbrook presented and spoke to the University of Chicago Law School. In his speech, he reflected the
Techno-Communism and the Desire for Socialism through Code
One of the primary arguments made over and over throughout ‘blockchain communities’ comes with the concept of being owed a
Is Code Really Law?
Many people within the ‘cryptocurrency communities’ have made a religion of “code is law”, the flawed methodology of Lawrence Lessig
The Right to Run a Node
The problem that exists in the Bitcoin environment today is reminiscent of society at large. For many years now, we
A Discourse on Nodes
The definition that has propagated around the description of a Bitcoin node has led to a rather cultish ‘quasi-religion’. I
Nodes, Hash Rate, and Signalling
Some people falsely think that the amount of hash rate is a security feature in itself. The error here stems