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:

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Business 9 January 2018

Moving to 2 decimal places is both logical and necessary

Now that Bitcoin’s price has exploded, bringing the decimal place to ‘Bits’ (allowing 2 decimal places), is not only practical, but also necessary for further adoption.

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Editorial 4 January 2018

BTC market dominance drops to Ethereum’s All-Time-High

BTC’s market dominance has for the first time ever, dropped to a level, to which an alt-coin once had.el

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Editorial 3 January 2018

BitMex joins the list of exchanges and wallets that failed to supply customers with their BCH

BitMex sells all of its customers' Bitcoin Cash (BCH). The obvious question here is, what if BCH ends up performing much higher?

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Editorial 5 December 2017

Did Satoshi Nakamoto want Side-chains for Bitcoin?

A week ago, I found someone online spouting that Satoshi encouraged side-chains and lightning network.

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Business 21 November 2017

Tether claims its treasury got hacked, 30 million+ in USDT gone

Tether states that “$30,950,010 USDT was removed from the Tether Treasury wallet on Nov 19, 2017 and sent to an unauthorized bitcoin address.

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Events 9 November 2017

Scaling Bitcoin 2017 at Stanford, Day 2

Day 2 at Scaling Bitcoin 2017 Stanford, was again a day of fantastic research, aimed specifically at making best of an artificially restricted blocksize.

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Events 5 November 2017

Scaling Bitcoin Conference Day 1

The Scaling Bitcoin conference was filled w/ students, experts, & researchers, gathering to present & discuss various improvements to Bitcoin.

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Editorial 1 November 2017

Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin 2.0

It’s the legitimate upgrade. Yes. - By saying - 2.0 – I mean it was always the intended upgrade from the moment Satoshi released Bitcoin’s source code.

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Editorial 30 October 2017

Credibility and Plagiarism

Speaking with Dr Wright earlier this year, he mentioned he was looking forward to coming out publicly later this year.

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Editorial 24 October 2017

What’s happening to the Segwit transaction count???

Segwit proponents have been for weeks hailing the parabolic increase in Segwit transactions. Not long ago, almost 18% of all transactions were Segwit based.

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Editorial 24 October 2017

Does Bitcoin Cash Difficulty Algorithm need changing?

There’s a lot of FUD being instigated, even from some who are not aligned to BCC. Where are we at and what needs doing?

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Editorial 19 October 2017

Almost 3 months onwards, what has Segwit really provided?

Segwit as a promising solution to liberate Bitcoin of its bottlenecks of congestion after almost 3 months of activation.