Posts in Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

In the Bitcoin and "cryptocurrency" space, and I use the term cryptocurrency loosely as practically none of the other systems has any use as a currency let alone cash system, Google has finally...

The solution to problems with crime and money laundering always existed within Bitcoin. In the white paper itself, it is explained many times that attackers could be controlled by honest nodes....

Everything in life comes with trade-offs. Something that few people understand is part of understanding who I am for myself. I have Asperger’s, or, as they call it now, autism spectrum disorder...

Before I launched Bitcoin, I had been discussing how the proposed system would work. [1] Many people have failed to read my white paper and assumed that Bitcoin is a voting system that allows...

The real need for open-source software has been hijacked by a political agenda. I did not create Bitcoin as open-source software because I believed that software should be free. Rather, as one of...

I believe in law. To me, it holds the convictions of all that is valuable. Having said so, all systems of law require bounds. As societies develop, such bounds are tested and change. Here lies one...

Recently, we have received many questions and seen much public conjecture about what will happen in January 2020 with bitcoin in my family’s trust. What a family does with its finances should be...

A few weeks ago, at CC Forum in London, Bobby Lee asked me to review his new product called Ballet. In effect, it’s a paper wallet printed on a piece of metal. Like many others, Bobby has...

Merkle Trees By now, it should be well understood that Bitcoin utilises the concept of a Merkle tree to its advantage; by way of background, we provide an explanation in this post.  The following...

The battle for Bitcoin is very simple, and it goes right back to the days before I launched it. My vision lies in a system that will utterly destroy crime. I designed Bitcoin not to avoid...