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Many think that when you pay a company to create something for you that you naturally own the copyright. This is not correct. Copyright requires an explicit transfer of rights.   Copyright does...

For some time now, I have allowed people to continue with this foolish and unscientific notion of gamma in the Selfish Mining fallacy. In this rather extended article I intend to finally detail...

This is a very quick summary of why scaling on-chain works. In 2009, the effective limit in software was 32MB — although this was only due to the limits of the software. For a commercial server,...

It was April 27th, 2013 when I first published an earlier version of this, and it is timely to start bringing this to life again. The most marketable goods are what become the media of exchange....

Or the invasion of the coin snatchers…. For every 1 BCH deposited (these are actually destroyed), 100 WHC are created (issued from the pre-mine PoS allocation — not created at all). A Wormhole...

Non-repudiation is the process of ensuring that the parties to a transaction cannot deny (this is repudiate) that a transaction occurred. Repudiation is an assertion refuting a claim or the...

It is common for Omni and Counterparty style tokens to say how they back the underlying security using the one that they parasitically sit upon. This is expressly clear in Bitmain’s abysmally...

It is simple to be disappointed with the common person. I have written recently about the bandwagon fallacy. When I wrote about this the other day, I pointed out a variation of it that we now see,...

I have a hard lesson for many people within the bitcoin and crypto currency community and that is that tax does not go away because you use crypto currency. The reality is that bitcoin is...

Plato covered the problems of true anonymity in The Republic. In this story, he detailed a fictional character called Gyges of Lydia who found a magic ring that enabled him to escape all review...