Posts in Alternative Coins & Systems

In law, there are provisions concerning the wrongful retention of monies. In the UK, such matters are covered under the Theft Act S. 24A, Dishonestly retaining a wrongful credit. In such acts, the...

Back in 2009, Bitcoin used a feature that allowed for the IP-to-IP exchange of information. The 2009 wallet was not more than a proof of concept, and many of the best aspects of Bitcoin have been...

It is interesting how the arguments against commercial mining come down to an outcry against “mining centralisation.” All things in life come from balance. In the commonly used image listed as...

People seem to have a misplaced idea that the SegWit-coin (BTC) Core developers are even adequate developers who understand Bitcoin and seek to make it work. Such ends cannot be logically...

The following are some notes on ICOs (all are securities) that can act as a set of things to consider. Always know the rules for registered funding portals, completion of offers, cancellations of...

The US Howey case used the Expectation of Profit as an element in International Brotherhood of Teamsters vs Daniel. Daniel involved contributions by employers into a non-contributory pension plan,...

In the English law, “true sale” incorporates the securitisation structures around existing receivables in two forms. We first have to address the risk that the purported sale would be...

I will discuss the current state of play in ICOs. In my posts, I will demonstrate categorically that no token sale is new, and that this myth and lie of “decentralisation” is completely unrelated...

In the world of Bitcoin there are many false narratives and myths. This started with the myth of decentralisation. In this, the false idea that all users are required to run a node was promoted to...

Bitcoin is money, but it is also a ledger, a commodity and a token. It is all these things and more. The issue is not which one of these we need to define Bitcoin, but, which one defines Bitcoin...