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Editorial 17 March 2023

Papers associated with Bitcoin and related topics in law: Part IV

While other authors present Bitcoin or blockchain systems as decentralized or distributed networks, the interconnectivity patterns and economic incentives within Bitcoin preclude the interconnection of nodes in any structure other than a small world or complete graph.

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Editorial 16 March 2023

Bitcoin doesn’t fix this

As we watch the Federal Reserve, FDIC and other agencies reassure the world that “everything is fine,” we also have to deal with the nauseating cacophony of small blockers pretending to be excited about global collapse because “Bitcoin fixes this.”

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Business 14 March 2023

Papers associated with Bitcoin and related topics in law: Part I

In this part 1 of the series "Papers associated with Bitcoin and related topics in law," Dr. Craig Wright discussed the concept of decentralization, which has become a core topic when describing how blockchain-based monetary systems function.

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Editorial 13 March 2023

Liability in peer-to-peer networks

There is a concept in law called secondary liability—also known as vicarious liability—which Dr. Wright covered many times and was a part of his LLM thesis that was released before Bitcoin.

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Business 27 February 2023

Bitcoin and Securities: Law is coming

Liberty begins with personal responsibility leading to a culture of responsibility—have we seen this in the blockchain space? No, not by a long mile, Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.

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Editorial 20 February 2023

The myth of ‘Selfless Satoshi’

An unyielding real Satoshi fighting to keep his creation uncorrupted is far better for humanity than an imaginary ‘selfless Satoshi’ who has abandoned all his responsibilities.

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Interviews 16 February 2023

Craig Wright on the very start of Bitcoin

On this week’s CoinGeek Conversations, Dr. Craig Wright reminisces how Bitcoin began—he was testing his systems, with the transaction in question being one he was sending to himself between two of his own computers.