Since just after Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto published the “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” whitepaper in 2008 there has been discussion whether his invention can scale to massive use. Satoshi Nakamoto said it could. Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV), which follows the original vision of Satoshi Nakamoto, proves that it actually can scale to massive[…]
Foretrækker du nutidens inflationstilbøjelige og relativt ineffektive penge som magthaverudpegede organisationer kan lave flere af ud af den blå luft, eller foretrækker du mere effektive blockchainpenge uden særprivilegier til særligt udpegede og som samtidig giver rimelig god privatlivsbeskyttelse? I efteråret 2008 offentliggjorde nogen der brugte pseudonymet Satoshi Nakamoto et såkaldt whitepaper med titlen Bitcoin: A[…]
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.[…]