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Jon Southurst is based in Tokyo and has reported on the Bitcoin and blockchain industry since 2013. He has worked for a number of crypto news websites, and creates videos on Bitcoin SV for the YouTube channels BitcoinSVtrain and MetaNetTV.

Article by Jon Southurst

Why esports and Bitcoin are a natural match
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25 May, 2020

Why esports and Bitcoin are a natural match

Esports is one of those ideas that's been touted as perfect for Bitcoin since the beginning. So where are the...
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! But don’t think about the fees
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22 May, 2020

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! But don’t think about the fees

It’s the 10th anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day, marking the first (or at least, the first documented) purchase of real-world...
Unbounded Capital book busts blockchain industry’s ‘faulty assumptions’
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22 May, 2020

Unbounded Capital book busts blockchain industry’s ‘faulty assumptions’

Jon Southurst reviews Unbounded Capital’s new book, which states the investment firm's decision to focus solely on the Bitcoin SV...
True Reviews CEO Connor Murray talks post funding plans
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20 May, 2020

True Reviews CEO Connor Murray talks post funding plans

Co-founder and CEO Connor Murray said True Reviews plans to hire a team of experienced developers to help build and...
TAAL processes another world record block, 369MB on mainnet
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19 May, 2020

TAAL processes another world record block, 369MB on mainnet

Just days after the Bitcoin network processed a record 309MB transaction block, the record was broken by another—369MB, also by...
TAAL’s 309MB Bitcoin block record shows BSV’s capabilities
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13 May, 2020

TAAL’s 309MB Bitcoin block record shows BSV’s capabilities

The record-making block, on the Bitcoin mainnet, was 309MB in size and contained 1,178,322 mostly-small and regular transactions.

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