Posts in Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

One thing I’ve learnt during my time with Bitcoin is how important it is to choose your words carefully. Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing, but even I have been careless with the use of...

At the time, Wikipedia wanted to remove the page. There wasn’t anything good that had been published which detailed and described Bitcoin other than the white paper. Wikipedia requires...

Blockstream raised USD60 million on the promise of 2 patents. The patents are: Cryptographically concealing amounts transacted on a ledger while preserving a network’s ability to verify the...

It’s funny, the cypherpunks want to demonstrate that code is law. In part, they think they can back me into a corner. They think that they can support their assertion by making me sign something...

Some time ago in a blog post far far away, I wrote about the genesis block and the start of Bitcoin. Many have argued that the initial block in Bitcoin is a flaw. It is nothing of the sort. The...

Jurisdiction (or the location where a case may be heard) can be a big issue on the Internet. In a contractual negotiation where the client is in country A and the web server is in country B, the...

The irony of those seeking anarchy and calling out for BitCoin to act outside the law is that they are not only trolls but simple bullies. It’s rather hypocritical to talk about an anarchist...

The Silicon Valley culture of change at any cost, with pivot at every moment is detrimental to most of what we see in society. It replaces simplicity with chaos. Simplicity can lead to complexity,...

There are very clear reasons for having law cover what is allowable as admissible evidence and what is rejected as hearsay. When a party to a dispute that has nothing to do with a piece of...

Calvin Ayre is my friend. It becomes very hard to have friends when you have money. I have a few, and I would include Shadders and Jimmy in the list. Calvin is in part my friend as he is also my...