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“Imagine if gold turned to lead when stolen. If the thief gives it back, it turns to gold again…” Bitcoin is an immutable evidence trail. It is not about taking down governments. It’s a...

One of the key aspects of Bitcoin is that it is set in stone; the protocol does not change. Many have been misled to believe that Bitcoin would be a system of nodes voting on a protocol, which...

In the Bitcoin white paper, I specified how it is possible to verify payments without running a full network node. The distinct specifications and definitions are important: Section 5 of the white...

Tominaga Nakamoto (1715–46) was a Japanese philosopher trained in the Osaka merchant academy called the Kaitokudō. His research and writings on metaphysics and cosmology in the study of nature...

The book Satoshi’s Vision: The Art of Bitcoin is the product of a compilation of a selected number of Craig’s blog posts published on Medium and craigwright.net. The content is for the most part...

Identification of ownership rights in Bitcoin and assets on the Bitcoin blockchain through payments and mixtures would be an exercise in tracing. Lord Millett in Foskett v McKeown gave the...

The most fundamental of human rights is the right to hold property. There are many who would argue the same, but the reality is: to be free, we need to be able to control our lives. To choose how...

In section 9 of the Bitcoin white paper, I defined the notion of a new privacy model. In my paper, I start by saying how the traditional privacy model works and detail it in an image. In the...

Introduction Posner (1968: 1563–4) upholds the position where diverse markets act outside the whims of individual players. The distinction lies in an argument where parties in the pricing model of...

Anarchist anti-government and anti-law promoters of Bitcoin will tell you that if you don’t have your keys, you don’t have your bitcoin. Unfortunately for them, keys are not law. Private keys make...