Kurt Wuckert Jr

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Kurt is an entrepreneur from Chicago with experience in bitcoin mining, business management, and cybersecurity. As CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian, Kurt is a wealth of knowledge on all things blockchain, and he has the unique ability to make complex ideas easy to understand. Kurt is never afraid to engage in a fiery debate, and his editorials are unapologetic while also being fair and fun to read. As host of the CoinGeek Weekly Livestream, Kurt is lively, informative and sometimes controversial.

His Bitcoin journey started in 2012, and he has been an active, public advocate for Satoshi’s Vision of big block Bitcoin since the beginning of the Bitcoin Civil War. Whether in print, spoken word, video appearances or on stage, Kurt has a knack for keeping things practical while never being afraid to poke fun at people’s sacred calfs. He is a frequent host, co-host and special guest across the blockchain media space, and is a fearless advocate for the unbounded Bitcoin protocol.

In his free time, Kurt loves spending quality time with his growing family and training in MMA with his beloved wife. They are both Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitors, and Kurt holds certification to teach strangulation and dismemberment techniques under the Alliance Jiu-Jitsu Association.

Articles By Kurt Wuckert Jr:

Editorial 8 April 2021

Bitcoin is green technology

In the face of the bull run and NFT boom, environmentalist activists have once again targeted Bitcoin’s industrial infrastructure for criticism based on the assumption that proof of work for building blocks is a waste of electricity.

Editorial 30 March 2021

Bitcoin SV already won

When properly incentivized, Bitcoin is capable of an unfathomable amount of throughput and flexibility that can dwarf Visa, MasterCard, SWIFT, ACH and all of the data management networks on earth.

Editorial 16 March 2021

Bitcoin SV rallies as world record 638MB block is mined

The fact that no other publication is interested in the revolutionary fusion of data and money on a network guided purely by incentives is astounding—and sad, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.

Editorial 10 March 2021

Peter Schiff: Wrong about Bitcoin, right about BTC

BTC is a heavily deprecated version of Bitcoin that has been trimmed into some kind of digital Rai Stone backed by hopes, dreams and mining machines, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.

Business 25 February 2021

Kurt’s Personal Blog: Coming Soon™

Turns out the big surprise was that Craig Wright wants a world where law and bitcoin intertwine in a way which makes them both better.

Business 24 February 2021

Is Bitcoin censorship resistant?

Bitcoin is indeed resistant to censorship, but it is also deliberately flexible under stress, and designed as a tool to enforce the truth—even when extremely unpopular, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.

Editorial 16 February 2021

I just solved DeFi

Ethereum is one giant computer that requires all of its parts to move across each threshold together—making the entire network only as fast as the slowest node, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.

Editorial 9 February 2021

Elon Musk would hate BSV

Elon Musk has announced that Tesla bought 1.5 billion dollars’ worth of BTC which he intends to do nothing with so that it will lose velocity on the company books for the foreseeable future.

Interviews 5 February 2021

Genesis Anniversary Live recap – Kurt’s perspective

Kurt Wuckert Jr. is joined by britevue’s Connor Murray, nChain’s Jack Davies, and CREA’s Matej Trampuš for the Genesis Anniversary Livestream.

Tech 1 February 2021

Bitcoin SV Node software releases v1.0.7

Bitcoin SV Node software v1.0.7 is a beta release from version 1.0.6, so the changes are mostly small but be sure to know the risks before upgrading to the new release, Kurt Wuckert Jr writes.

Editorial 22 January 2021

Double spend, newspeak, and the case for magic numbers

On January 21, a double spend of $21 happened on the BTC network. Kurt Wuckert Jr. explains why there is a lot more than meets the eye in this attack

Editorial 19 January 2021

Elysium vs Galt’s Gulch

There is a very real distinction between the worldviews of the small blockers versus that of the big blockers, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.

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