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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

Bitcoin nodes don’t ‘vote’ on rule changes—but developers shouldn’t propose them
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30 November, 2022

Bitcoin nodes don’t ‘vote’ on rule changes—but developers shouldn’t propose them

The question over what decisions miners can/can't make arose again this week with the latest release candidate to BTC's protocol...
Jack Dorsey’s Block sues Bitcoin.com over ‘Verse’ name in Europe
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30 November, 2022

Jack Dorsey’s Block sues Bitcoin.com over ‘Verse’ name in Europe

Legal counsel for Block sent letters to Bitcoin.com in July and August 2022 informing the company it was infringing on...
Bitcoin with billions of secure transactions per second, with IPv6 multicasting
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28 November, 2022

Bitcoin with billions of secure transactions per second, with IPv6 multicasting

Dr. Craig Wright, Latif Ladid, Brendan Lee, and Owen Vaughan were panelists for the Digital Around the World webinar, where...
Exchanges warned to be on alert for frantic attempts to dump stolen FTX ETH
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22 November, 2022

Exchanges warned to be on alert for frantic attempts to dump stolen FTX ETH

According to a recent assessment by Chainalysis, a large chunk of ETH tokens that went missing from FTX wallets was...
The challenges of bringing the world on-chain at the ‘Blockchain in Business’ event
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18 November, 2022

The challenges of bringing the world on-chain at the ‘Blockchain in Business’ event

The Blockchain in Business event in Australia showcased the scalability and power of the BSV blockchain in transforming businesses and...
FTX Bankruptcy: Hacked, regulated or rug-pulled as traders despair
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12 November, 2022

FTX Bankruptcy: Hacked, regulated or rug-pulled as traders despair

Observers noticed on-chain records showing "hundreds of millions of dollars" worth of digital assets began leaving the FTX exchange’s wallets...

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