You can read on the front page of Bitcoin’s whitepaper from 2008 that Bitcoin was intended as a very efficient means of payment that worked peer-to-peer, i.e. without an intermediary between the payer and the payee. Bitcoin could thus become a serious competitor to, among others. Mastercard, VISA, central banks’ physical cash and partly retail banks’ payment[…]
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[…]