I have conceived a way to disincentivize email spam, and also financially reward email recipients for their attention. The method allows an email user to easily put a flexible and efficient paywall in front of one or more of the email addresses the user uses. Imagine Alice can put a $1 (or any other amount she chooses) paywall[…]
Background After the BTC/BCH split in August 2017, I thought the people involved with Bitcoin Cash were united in wanting to follow the original vision of Satoshi Nakamoto and that we would gradually see the blocksize limit increased until it was completely removed. I was wrong. Not everyone wanted to follow that path. We managed[…]
I have mentioned several times that bitcoin is/was under attack by the Blockstream people who literally have done what they could to Block(the)Stream of bitcoin transactions. On the 1st of August 2017 some of the more propaganda resistent people in the bitcoin community created a minority fork of bitcoin. That day every bitcoin owner came[…]
Segregated witness is a complete change of the security model of bitcoin. Why would anyone want to do that? The previous security model has worked perfectly to secure payments for users and merchants so a reasonable explanation is that it is not in the interest of users and merchants to completely change the security model.[…]
Encryption works. That was one of the lessons I learned from paying attention to the details of the Snowden revelations. But even though encryption works, NSA and GCHQ could still snoop on almost all internet traffic at the time of Snowdens revelations. The way they pulled that off was not by making encryption illegal but[…]
I think we in the bitcoin community are facing a situation which is similar to what is described in this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-0o0cSw24 To illustrate the evilness of some of the folks refusing a block size limit increase I point you to the example Luke Dashjr also known as Luke-Jr. He has been employed on occasion[…]