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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

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.
Unbounded Capital: BTC, ETH investors’ ‘flawed consensus’ will be their downfall
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11 May, 2020

Unbounded Capital: BTC, ETH investors’ ‘flawed consensus’ will be their downfall

BTC’s lack of capacity forms part of Unbounded's thesis in the book, titled "Why Multicoin Capital and the Crypto Consensus...
All about Memento, the image-driven Bitcoin social network
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11 May, 2020

All about Memento, the image-driven Bitcoin social network

Memento currently has an alpha version of its backend, and is looking for front-end developers to build the user interface.
Craig Wright: ‘Money is time and energy’ and Bitcoin’s purpose is very simple
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10 May, 2020

Craig Wright: ‘Money is time and energy’ and Bitcoin’s purpose is very simple

In a new blog post, Dr. Craig Wright dispels some popular myths and misconceptions about money and Bitcoin's role in...
Looter wants to show how Bitcoin micropayments beat ‘freemium’
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6 May, 2020

Looter wants to show how Bitcoin micropayments beat ‘freemium’

The developers of social fitness app Looter are showing how Bitcoin's micropayment economy can offer an alternative to the "freemium"...
Does Vitalik Buterin understand patents—or blockchain?
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5 May, 2020

Does Vitalik Buterin understand patents—or blockchain?

The ongoing war of words between Dr. Craig S. Wright and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin continued in April.

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