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[…]
Dear Dr. Craig Steven Wright I am sorry that some bad people chose to disregard your desire for privacy. But now that we all know you are Satoshi Nakamoto I would like to thank you for your gift to mankind. You are truly a genius and a great human being. The revelation of Satoshis true[…]
To the best of my judgement bitcoin is in the middle of a coup attempt. The intellectual part of the attack force is headed by Blockstream. Who knows who else is behind. Probably some very powerful forces. Some background reading: https://forum.bitcoin.com/ama-ask-me-anything/i-m-mike-hearn-creator-of-lighthouse-bitcoinj-and-bitcoin-xt-ask-me-anything-t2207.html http://forums.prohashing.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=650 https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-block-sizes-e047bc9f830 If bitcoin is not allowed to scale bitcoin is probably basically worthless.[…]
According to http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-os-ww-monthly-201409-201509 the usage share of Linux based desktop operating systems is 1.55%. For mobile and tablet the share is much higher, 66.77% and 30.98% respectively. Why the huge difference between desktop and mobile/tablet? I believe the reason is that Android which is the dominating Linux based system on mobile and tablet has a[…]