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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...

In 2008 and 2009, a group of people mistakenly thought that the world would be better off without banking. The loosely aligned anarchist group Occupy Wall Street protested for many months, before...

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...

Many in Silicon Valley and others like to promote the false concept of artificial intelligence (AI) and, specifically, how AI and automation will replace people. There is one reason they do so: to...

There is an overwhelming amount of false information around Bitcoin and, in particular, on the topic of privacy or pseudonymous transfer. Bitcoin is anything but anonymous. Anonymity requires that...

The Bitcoin blockchain is an immutable audit trail, which does not mean that money cannot be seized or that illicit images and other material cannot be filtered. Immutability does not require...

It is interesting that a meme of digital gold has popped up around BTC over the last few years. The complete lack of understanding of how Bitcoin works from the Bitcoin Core team has led to such a...

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...