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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.
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 Stories that deserve to be told are not often told because they are inconvenient, frustrating or outdated to modern sensibilities.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Solana had a transaction flood incident which split the network as validators came out of sync with one another under a possible denial of service attack. Their solution? Just reboot it.
When it was announced that El Salvador would be using “bitcoin” as legal tender in the third world nation and that businesses would be forced to accept it as payment small blockers jumped for joy, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
Things got spicy at the SLS Brickell during the BSV Blockchain Conference, with host Jimmy Nguyen as his usual “always on” self—full of vigor as he kicked off the morning by giving the 30,000-foot view of the BSV economy from the stage of a sold-out room.
There is an assumption among some people that all bitcoiners fit into easily defined collectivist silos of one political variety or another, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
Bitcoin SV is an unlimited implementation of Bitcoin, which allows the highest throughput of transactions per megawatt in the entire blockchain space.
In this piece, CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. seeks to give Jordan Peterson a contrarian view about Bitcoin with some often-ignored facts.
