Category: Satoshi Nakamoto

  • Wendy McElroy: The Key to the Crypto Revolution’s Success is Overlooked

    Wendy McElroy: The Key to the Crypto Revolution’s Success is Overlooked

    The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 10, Part 1 The Key to the Crypto Revolution’s Success is Overlooked by Wendy McElroy Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the…

  • Satoshi’s 1 Million Bitcoin Haul Could Be Smaller Than First Thought

    Satoshi’s 1 Million Bitcoin Haul Could Be Smaller Than First Thought

    Bitcoin’s elusive creator Satoshi Nakamoto owns 1 million BTC, plus a corresponding number of BCH and other forked coins. That’s always been what we were led to believe, ever since a 2013 analysis by Sergio Lerner. A new analysis by Bitmex Research has now called that figure into doubt, suggesting that Satoshi’s stack, while still…

  • Wendy McElroy: The Jiu-Jitsu of Crypto – Personal Freedom vs Social Change

    Wendy McElroy: The Jiu-Jitsu of Crypto – Personal Freedom vs Social Change

    The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 9, Part 7 The Jiu-Jitsu of Crypto: Personal Freedom vs Social Change. It is often assumed that power derives from violence and can be controlled only by greater violence. Actually, power derives from sources in the society which may be restricted…

  • Bitcoin Not Dead, Again: Washington Post Gets Schooled

    Bitcoin Not Dead, Again: Washington Post Gets Schooled

    Castle Island Ventures partner and cofounder of Coinmetrics.io, Nic Carter, has had quite enough. Made crazy by mainstream media misunderstanding, ignorance, and downright falsehoods regarding cryptocurrencies, he took to Medium, making the case for why Bitcoin is not dead, again. Also read: Report: 15,000 Twitter Crypto Scam Giveaway Bots “Bitcoin is Still a Total Disaster”…

  • Curing the Disease of Control with Taoism and Crypto-Anarchy

    Curing the Disease of Control with Taoism and Crypto-Anarchy

    Many people lust for control. They need to control objects, animals, and people. This need for domination leads some to use violence to sate their urges. Their blind obedience to control unlocks a pathology that destroys their thinking faculties. It turns them into animals, driven by a fetish for control. In some ways, this need…

  • Satoshi Nakamoto Hunted Internationally, Bounty Grows

    Satoshi Nakamoto Hunted Internationally, Bounty Grows

    #Findsatoshi is the latest effort to galvanize worldwide support in order to, once and for all, find the enigmatic creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. The group has taken to an international crowdfunding campaign, enlisting world class private detectives from Japan to New York, and everywhere in-between.  Also read: Report: 15,000 Twitter Crypto Scam Giveaway Bots…

  • Wendy McElroy: Free-Market Law Enforcement for Crypto

    Wendy McElroy: Free-Market Law Enforcement for Crypto

    The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations. Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 9, Part 6 Government is a law factory. It passes laws in the same manner that another type of factory extrudes metal molding…But, whereas a factory which extrudes metal molding is providing a product which is useful to the citizens generally,…

  • A Look at Stylometry: Can We Uncover Satoshi Through Literary Quirks?

    A Look at Stylometry: Can We Uncover Satoshi Through Literary Quirks?

    Over the past few years, the number of people hunting for Satoshi Nakamoto has increased as people all over the world have been in search of the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency-community has also seen a few people come out of the woodwork recently, who have claimed to be Satoshi or have been accused…

  • Blockchain States Lure Citizens with Political Nostalgia and Voting Rights

    Blockchain States Lure Citizens with Political Nostalgia and Voting Rights

    If you’ve ever thought of acquiring a digital, virtual citizenship, there are a couple of new options on the table – a ‘Satoshi Nakamoto Republic’ and a ‘Soviet Land’ on blockchain, among others. True, ‘crypto passports’ often come with coin offerings that you might not necessarily be interested in — But the blockchain republics also promise…

  • Bitcoin.org Reverts Back to ‘Fast’ and ‘Low Fee’ Descriptions on Front Page

    Bitcoin.org Reverts Back to ‘Fast’ and ‘Low Fee’ Descriptions on Front Page

    This week after a few months of controversy, the owners of Bitcoin.org reverted its descriptions about what Bitcoin is on the website’s front page back to “fast peer-to-peer transactions” and “low processing fees” after removing the descriptions this past January. The front page descriptions were changed by the website’s co-owner, a pseudonym called ‘Cobra Bitcoin,’…