Eli Afram

A lifelong programmer, and a long time advocate for scaling Bitcoin. Being a post-graduate academic, and backed by years of industry research in internet security, and cryptographic applications, Eli became fascinated in Bitcoin when he stumbled upon Satoshi’s whitepaper in 2012 and began to study the technology in great depth. Towards the end of 2015 Eli started to become actively involved in the Bitcoin community itself, partaking and driving discussions, particularly concerning the scaling debate. A strong advocate of proven on-chain scaling, yet not opposed to second layer solutions either, Eli remains and advocate for Bitcoin as frictionless electronic cash.

Articles By Eli Afram:

Tech 12 November 2021

Create your own pocket sized blockchain in JavaScript

In this article, Eli Afram explores how anyone can create a nano sized blockchain with JavaScript using less than 30 lines of code to achieve this.

Editorial 22 January 2021

Responding to Antonopoulos on the BTC double-spend analysis

BitMex Research’s ForkMonitor recently detected a split in the BTC chain, where the temporarily leading chain was re-org’d, and therefore 1 block was orphaned.

Editorial 30 July 2020

‘Blockchains don’t scale’—except Bitcoin SV

Eli Afram debunks the prevailing rhetoric that blockchains don’t scale, or they don’t scale well.

Editorial 19 May 2020

Ethereum 2.0, or is it 0.2?

Eli Afram examines the ins and outs of the upgrade to the Ethereum network, analyzing the merits on the basis of technical and societal.

Editorial 6 May 2020

The unbounded possibilities of blockchain technology

Eli Afram explains how Bitcoin SV brings the unbounded possibilities of blockchain technology to global enterprise.

Editorial 7 February 2020

Why a position of ‘anti-patents’ is bad for business

Eli Afram delves into patents and how damaging it can be, in today’s society, to reject patents altogether.

Editorial 20 September 2019

Bitcoin, tax, and privacy

The lack of understanding in the technology builds resistance that is baseless and somewhat encourages fear of the unknown.

Editorial 29 August 2019

Bitcoin’s capacity to make the world better

The recent recommendation in the Ira vs Craig case, reveals the hard truth about an ever-present problem within the justice system, that by the account of many studies, exists.

Editorial 22 August 2019

How stable is a risky stablecoin?

In the advent of blockchain technology is the increase number of stable coins which heavily rely on 'trust' that leaves a lot to be desired for.

Editorial 19 March 2019

Bitcoin and Crony Capitalism

Bitcoin in its intended stable form is powerful enough to revolutionise the entire world for the better. Sound global money, that, with an intact protocol, cannot be corrupted by any single government, company or individual.

Tech 5 February 2019

From the surveillance economy to the Metanet economy

As the world progressed through the ages, things started to slowly change. World governments became increasingly obsessed with surveillance.

Tech 24 January 2019

Bitcoin SV devs and miners remove another limitation to scale Bitcoin

Bitcoin software has been plagued by artificial limitations since day one. Inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto put some of these limits in place as a means to bootstrap the project, and suitably commented that such limits were temporary. Increasing the blocksize, which Bitcoin SV has been leading the charge in, is the removal of one restriction.