Solana: Just reboot it
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.
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Bitcoin SV adopted by ‘other nations’?
There has been a remarkable slip of the tongue by Dr. Craig Wright at the last CoinGeek conference in Zurich. What was it about? Why is it important?
Bitcoin: The deficient market hypothesis
Many people ask why is BSV so cheap compared to BTC? Such questions are at the heart of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), a cornerstone of modern finance theory.
El Salvador, BTC and fascism
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.
Bitcoin politics
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.
Why speculators failed betting on Bitcoin SV for now
The BSV blockchain obviously is the best utility blockchain in the world. How come the price action is—at least for now—kind of disappointing compared to some of the other digital assets?
Babysitting Bitcoin
A better parable to connect real-world economics and blockchain is the Capitol Hill babysitting co-op, Neil Smith writes.
Elon Musk, you will love BSV
Bitcoin SV is an unlimited implementation of Bitcoin, which allows the highest throughput of transactions per megawatt in the entire blockchain space.
Is BTC the ugly digital gold?
BTC does indeed have something in common with gold—but not the way BTCers would like it to be, Dr. Michael Wehrmann writes.
How to create an NFT economy that thrives
Wondering why Ethereum NFTs are so successful? Here is their recipe for success for creating an NFT market that prospers.
Why the 51% attack says more about the state of the crypto industry than the BSV blockchain
It’s worth noting that other networks like BTC have had double spends and reorgs as well in the past without compromising funds of network participants.
Open letter to Jordan Peterson
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.
‘The Bitcoin Standard’: A review
Online reviews, social media posts, and Twitter bios echo similar sentiments: the book is apparently revelatory and life-changing, putting people on The Bitcoin Standard pathway, initiating them into the HODL culture of BTC maximalism.
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.
Bitcoin liberation: A retrospective
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.
The Mastercard Bitcoin conspiracy
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.
Bitcoin and source of funds
Bitcoins have a history attached to them. The transactional history of a Bitcoin cannot be hidden. That means one is always trading a specific Bitcoin when selling it for fiat money, Dr. Michael Wehrmann writes.
The ESG-washing of BTC Core: Hayek, Aristotle and Lauderdale’s paradox
Today, the only function of BTC is to create a scarce digital asset representing ‘spurious riches’ that can be traded in high-value financial transactions: to breed money from money.
Are we private keys? Bitcoin and identity
If your identity is a private key, you are the private key. If we become numbers, we become exchangeable like numbers, Dr. Michael Wehrmann writes.
Is Binance being delisted by banks?
First of all, it was the BSV blockchain space that had the “build” mantra instead of the “hodl” narrative since day one. In Bitcoin SV, we early on warned our readers of the hodl-mentality.