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A few conferences, a global pandemic and a lot of long hours later, CoinGeek has grown immensely and at the BSV Global Blockchain Convention, Kurt Wuckert Jr. is rolling in as a CoinGeek veteran.
The only way to win in Bitcoin is to get so good at cooperating and be a sincere leader that people become leaders themselves due to the example of goodness that emanates from our behavior.
Digital Currency Group (DCG), a conglomeration of venture capitalist groups founded in 2015, is one of the major centers of “big tech” and “old money” control in the BTC economy.
One of the favorite candidates among small blockers Blockstream CEO Dr. Adam Back, creator of the “Hashcash” white paper that illustrates how a proof of work can mitigate the problem of email SPAM and general denial of service (DoS) attacks.
Bloom filters being sunset in BSV is a little more interesting because they are incompatible with massive scaling due to the inefficient way that it breaks out address data for light clients.
While Dr. Craig Wright was doxed as Bitcoin’s creator by Wired and Gizmodo in 2015, the politics of Bitcoin have muddied the waters and made a rational discussion of the facts very difficult to have with a mainstream audience.
Bitcoin is awesome, but the BSV community needs to transition into being communities around real consumable digital products that have their own culture outside of the prerequisite of being really interested in magic internet money.
There are the important things that we really need to be asking to take the next big steps up. There are technical things, cultural things and economic circumstances. Some, we can control. Others, we can influence.
If given a list of top 5 bitcoiners that universally garner a knee-jerk negative response, every list would include Dr. Craig S. Wright. But why?
While the frothiness of typically low resolution, often knock-off JPEG art, selling for thousands of dollars is a red flag that we are seeing amid a bubble of epic proportions, there are some very intriguing bright spots in the NFT economy.
Bitcoin is a consensus network designed to solve the Byzantine Generals Problem with proof of work. If that sounds insane, sorry. Fortunately, it’s not as crazy as it sounds.
Despite memes to the contrary, Bitcoin is not a hedge against inflation. In fact, the more that it is treated primarily as a store of value by the economy, the more correlated to inflation that it will become.
