
The empire strikes back
The malicious reorganization attacks on the BSV blockchain were simply an act of terrorism meant to scare away investors and dry up liquidity by closing down exchange hubs, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
The malicious reorganization attacks on the BSV blockchain were simply an act of terrorism meant to scare away investors and dry up liquidity by closing down exchange hubs, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
It’s been four years since the split of the Bitcoin protocol away from the coup d’etat called “UASF” which activated Segregated Witness on the BTC network.
Bitcoin was disruptive, so Mastercard muzzled it, using “number go up” as lubrication to shut down the narrative of Bitcoin being a true fintech revelation, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
With a focus on creating an environment which encourages competition and entrepreneurship, CryptoFights joins an increasingly diverse group of businesses that have left the Ethereum ecosystem.
Double spends do not necessarily make for a problem, as some of the quoted “experts” have pointed out, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
The companies in BSV are building a brave new world on BSV, but not necessarily for BSV, and that’s crucial to understand, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
Bitcoin History series Part 3 delves into the split of BTC Core and Cash (BCH), and how the “Bitcoin” name was retained by the more limited chain, and the big blockers agreed haphazardly to fight for dominance on the worst metric possible: price.
After speaking at CoinGeek Zurich, Nassim Nicholas Taleb released a draft copy of his own thoughts about blockchain-based systems of money, and requested feedback from the Twitterverse.
CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. shares his what went down at the whirlwind three-day event that is the CoinGeek Zurich conference.
What’s the difference between the recently held BTC conference in Miami and the CoinGeek Conference in Zurich? Plenty, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
In the name of bullishness, BTC has joined the mainstream, and not on Bitcoin’s terms, but completely on the terms of the centralized systems of power that have kept economies planned, stratified and polarized since the beginning of the central bank era.
If you’re willing to look past all the investment hype, Twitter noise and ignore all of the professional concern-trolls that dominate the space, you will start to notice patterns and symbols that are truly meaningful.