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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...

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...

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 Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (“MLD5”) was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 19th June, 2018, and comes into force on 20th Jan, 2020. As expected, the European Union’s...

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,...

And BTC Is Not Bitcoin Bit gold has never had anything to do with Bitcoin in any way or form, and in fact, the systems have no relationship to each other. There is a similarity in the name. That’s...

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...

I started the company Panopticrypt in June 2011. At this stage, I was still deep in disputes with the Australian tax office. My two companies that I’d formed in 2009, Information Defense and...

All progress comes through a path of resistance. To understand this, we need to understand that a status quo will push back when you start to understand something. With all technology, there is a...