How To “Think Like Bitcoin”
Bitcoin does not care what anyone in particular “needs”. If you try to think about it from “Bitcoin’s perspective” – if you try to “be Bitcoin”…
Wired’s Weird Backpedalling – Story Was Too Good To Check, huh?
“In fact, we’d already spotted that the three posts in Wright’s now-deleted blog that seemed to reveal his bitcoin work had been backdated or edited after…
Uh, no, Devcon1 Did Not Live Up To Expectations Set By Vitalik
Bravenewcoin: “One of the most anticipated blockchain related events of the year, ÐΞVCON1 has lived up to expectations.” – URL Don’t expecte a solution to the…
Re: “Are banks really joining the blockchain bandwagon?”
Shane Leonard, CFA: “[…] Banks see the potential of a shared database to massively cut their overheads, not as a way to eliminate their role in…
Sorry, R3 – But You Still Don’t Get It
Professors in Economics as well as journalists and technologists have a hard time getting to grips with Bitcoin. That’s because you need to be very well-versed…
Don’t Trust Anyone Alone
Technologists often rave about new mechanisms just because they are possible – remember for example how 3G video telephony was going to “revolutionize mobile communication”? Mobile…
First commercial sidechain announced, strengthening the idea of Bitcoin as the “reserve currency”
“The security offered by the Bitcoin network is the final say in the Liquid system. Bitcoin can be sent to the Liquid sidechain, moved freely within…
The Bitcoin Formula: Energy / Time = Truth
Bitcoin is an Information Network backed by Energy Divided by Time The Bitcoin network uses energy with a 10 minute average checkpoint “measurement” to secure the…
No, you did not “Break Bitcoin”
Quote from a Motherboard (Vice) article published yesterday (October 7): “Alister Maclin can break Bitcoin on command. In an email, Maclin said he’s been the one…
Why W3C:s Payment System Proposal Interledger Won’t Work
This is the first paragraph in the white paper introducing W3C:s Interledger payment system: “We present a protocol for payments across payment systems. It enables secure…