Fork off Craig Wright
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?
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Dog JPEGs, Puggos and other BullishArt
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.
Run a Bitcoin node, honestly
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.
Bear with me, Bitcoin
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.
Small big blockers
Small blocker culture is built on virtue signaling a sort of “proof of node” or “proof of hodl” mindset where if you look, sound and act the right way, you become an invaluable member of the tribe.
Kurt’s personal blog: 2021 in BSV
CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian, Kurt Wuckert Jr., looks back on his eventful 2021—recounting the major highlights that happened throughout the year for him and the BSV ecosystem.
Shocker: Bitcoin in El Salvador is fake
El Salvador actually signed a deal with the Algorand blockchain to handle their national blockchain infrastructure because BTC and Lightning Network* are both incapable of handling the traffic.
People died for Bitcoin: A white paper story
On the 13th anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper, there is a more solemn history to recall and recount. Stories that deserve to be told are not often told because they are inconvenient, frustrating or outdated to modern sensibilities.
Bitcoin: Every sat matters
The smallest individual unit in Bitcoin is often called the “satoshi” or the “sat” for short, but does every sat matter if not every sat can be used equally on the network?
Kurt’s personal blog: Getting to New York and CoinGeek Cocktail Party
Even though New York is one of the hardest places in the world to stage an event, hundreds of people filed in to see the presentations, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
Cooperate or compete?
With the protocol wars complete (and BSV handily ahead of the pack), the competition has moved up to business application and service level competition, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
Withdraw your BSV now!
It doesn’t really matter what exchange wallet that you might be keeping your BSV on today because one of the things that came from the fallout of the Mt. Gox collapse was the rise of custodians.