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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 it’s so hard to trust the blockchain ‘news’ industry
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10 February, 2020

Why it’s so hard to trust the blockchain ‘news’ industry

Before believing everything you read in an article, it's important to remember a few truths about the blockchain industry, and...
List or Die: When will crypto exchanges see the light on BSV?
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10 February, 2020

List or Die: When will crypto exchanges see the light on BSV?

Economic reality is starting to catch up to digital asset exchanges that continue to refuse a listing to Bitcoin BSV.
The problem with Twitter’s new Bitcoin emoji
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6 February, 2020

The problem with Twitter’s new Bitcoin emoji

Twitter’s Bitcoin emoji has been controversial, mainly because it appears automatically when users type the Bitcoin and BTC hashtags, but...
Here’s the transaction that locked in Genesis
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5 February, 2020

Here’s the transaction that locked in Genesis

The Bitcoin SV Node team has published a more detailed explanation of the February 4 hard fork that activated Bitcoin...
Genesis Activated: In the beginning, thank-yous for Satoshi
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4 February, 2020

Genesis Activated: In the beginning, thank-yous for Satoshi

Bitcoin's base protocol has now returned to Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision and functionality, and miners activated “Genesis” with messages of...
Clueless pundits don’t understand Bitcoin
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3 February, 2020

Clueless pundits don’t understand Bitcoin

Bitcoin's 700,000 transactions per day is evidence of "price manipulation" and "fake activity," according to two observers.

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