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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 448. This is my discussion with European patent attorney David Pearce, of the Tufty the Cat European IP blog (twitter). He and I were co-founders and members of the Advisory Council for the Open Crypto Alliance (2020–22). We discuss Craig Wright, nChain and bitcoin related patents, and so on (see video below). https://youtu.be/3B1R_aTdQ0I https://youtu.be/AJmPrbQ4NQU?si=yAGKMU590r6Vac4i
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 448. This is my discussion with European patent attorney David Pearce, of the Tufty the Cat European IP blog (twitter). He and I were co-founders and members of the Advisory Council for the Open Crypto Alliance (2020–22). We discuss Craig Wright, nChain and bitcoin related patents, and so on (see video below). https://youtu.be/3B1R_aTdQ0I https://youtu.be/AJmPrbQ4NQU?si=yAGKMU590r6Vac4i
Unlock bonus episodes and more benefits at drbitcoinpod.com. Mark and Arthur discuss the origins of what might be the season finale of the Craig Wright Show: the COPA trial. In this first part they cover how the COPA vs. Craig Wright case got started, how Wright failed to get critical evidence thrown out, and how the BSV community twisted the case into a battle for nChain's patents. Follow us on Twitter at: @drbitcoinpod (the podcast) @twentynothing00 (Mark) @arthur_van_pelt (Arthur) You can find Arthur's in-depth Craig Wright pieces at mylegacykit.medium.com.
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Unlock bonus episodes and more benefits at drbitcoinpod.com. Mark and Arthur discuss the explosive revelations from former nChain CEO Christen Ager-Hanssen regarding nChain, Craig Wright, Calvin Ayre and more. Follow us on Twitter at: @drbitcoinpod (the podcast) @twentynothing00 (Mark) @arthur_van_pelt (Arthur) You can find Arthur's in-depth Craig Wright pieces at mylegacykit.medium.com.
In dieser Folge geht es weiter mit einer neuen Ausgabe der Rubrik “To Infinity and Beyond”. Daniel Höpfner und Yannick Socolov sprechen heute über die Neuigkeiten der letzten Woche in der Blockchain, Web 3.0, Krypto und NFT-Welt. Adoption & Ecosystem News:PayPal lanciert US-Dollar Stablecoin: Der Stablecoin, ein ERC-20-Token, wird auf der Ethereum-Blockchain ausgegebenOn-Chain Summer: Coinbase Layer 2 Blockchain Platform Base wurde offiziell diese Woche gelaunchedSEC geht gegen XRP-Urteil in Berufung: Ein Gericht hatte zuvor teilweise für Ripple entschieden und die Kryptowährung nicht als Wertpapier eingestuft.Worldcoin: BaFin ermittelt gegen Krypto-ProjektFundraising & Security:Polygon unterstützt institutionellen DEX D8X-Deal im Wert von 1,5 Millionen US-Dollar und setzt auf den Aufstieg von CeFi zu DeFiWeb3-Security-Startup Cube3.ai kommt mit Seed-Finanzierung von 8,2 Millionen US-Dollar aus Stealth-ModusAyre Group erwirbt nChain für 500 Millionen CHFCyber-Startup SphereX erhält 8 Millionen US-Dollar, um Krypto-Nutzern zu helfen, verdächtige Überweisungen zu blockierenSecurity Researcher stellen Seal 911 vor, eine Initiative nach dem Curve Hack, um besser mit betroffenen Protokollen in kontakt treten zu könnenBitForge: Fireblocks-Forscher decken Schwachstellen in über 15 großen Wallet-Anbietern auf
For more than two decades, Giovanni Franzese has been working for the telecoms giant Ericsson where he served most recently as Head of Blockchain Business Development. As an engineer, Giovanni liked to experiment with different types of technologies, but it wasn't until six years ago that he decided to use blockchain technology to develop a product solution.The product, Ericsson Customer Acceptance is a big win for Ericsson. As he explains, “it's a big product, it's very successful, and we have we have a very vast adoption.” As he tells Charles Miller on this episode of CoinGeek Conversations, innovation from within a corporation is extremely complex. “Innovation comes through acquisition, it's much easier: you buy a company which has a brilliant idea,” he says. In Giovanni's case, his idea to use blockchain didn't happen overnight. He admits that transforming his idea into a viable product was a struggle at first, but he worked ‘under the radar' and step by step: “it's like Lego bricks buildings, the first one and then the second, and then it was a good building at the end,” he says. It also helped that he found an internal stakeholder to sponsor his idea.Ericsson Customer Acceptance is backed by Hyperledger Fabric, a private blockchain technology. While building the product, Giovanni wasn't aware of any public blockchain with secured scalability and high transaction rates per second. On top of that, he was wary of proposing the use of public blockchain which he colleagues might fear would potentially expose corporate data. As Giovanni explains, the challenge continued as there was resistance to a product that had the word blockchain associated to it. As he points out, “at the very beginning nobody wanted it because it's not a secret that blockchain is still a little bit controversial, especially when we have such scandals like FDX.” Despite the roadblocks, Giovanni's blockchain-based solution was deployed to several Ericsson customers. At the end, he says “the benefits were so evident.”Giovanni left his position at Ericsson to join nChain where he plans to expand the BSV-supporting global tech company into a consultant service company. Only a few weeks after taking on the role of nChain executive partner, Giovanni had the opportunity to speak at the recent London Blockchain Conference. He highlighted his experience in developing, implementing, and eventually providing blockchain solutions to big corporates. In his talk, he shared a significant career-lesson to his audience: “I don't regret what I did and the decisions I took six years ago when I decided to embrace blockchain and use private, but my message to the audience today was, if you have to start now, then don't do it in the way I did with the use of public, use Bitcoin SV, because that is the right choice today.”Giovanni is impressed with BSV's capability to do 50,000 transactions per second and compares it to Ethereum which can only do an average of seven transactions per second, he says. He then compares the two blockchains to modes of transport saying BSV is like a Ferrari while Ethereum is like a little bike. As for discussions on using private vs public blockchain, Giovanni says, “now is the time to go public.” He supports public blockchain by saying that private blockchains are for the most part centralized, costly and it don't exploit the full capabilities of blockchain technology.
Julio Alejandro disagrees with much that's said in the Bitcoin SV world. But he's a rarity among its critics in that he welcomes the chance to debate the issues and he praises Dr Craig Wright - “an incredibly smart, capable human being” - for his willingness to engage in dialogue around contentious questions of government, money and self-determination.As CEO of the London-based JADA consultancy, Julio provides public workshops and offers his services in private client work on blockchain and other leading technologies. Born in Mexico, he has also worked as a journalist which, through first hand experience, heightened his awareness of the problems of immigrants in both North America and Europe.He believes in the power of blockchain to solve some of the problems of material inequality and unequal human opportunities through creating alternatives to the monopolistic power of the nation state - in its provision of passports and money in particular.At the first of Dr Wright's recent Masterclasses, in London, Julio challenged Dr Wright in the Q and A session, putting forward libertarian arguments for blockchain that he claimed could be achieved through the creation of DAOs (decentralised autonomous organisations). Dr Wright argued that the autonomous communities that Julio promotes necessarily exist under national laws and that opting out of those laws and the societies they exist in is not possible in the real world. Speaking on the latest edition of CoinGeek Conversations, Julio follows up that discussion, questioning the Western-centric view of the world and arguing for the development of more autonomous, self-directed communities: “Why do we believe within this Western vision of imposing on a group of people that this is the best system of thought? So when we say, ‘is this right wing or left wing or whatever wing', my answer is: let other people, that are not harming someone else, create their own things - which can be a cryptocurrency or a country, a legal system. We should be coding and actually building those countries that demonopolise. That's a DAO. It eliminates the monopoly. If we're not eliminating a monopoly, we fail. If we're not eliminating the nation states, we also fail.”He sees blockchain as a liberating technology that could spread the spirit of entrepreneurship and self-determination around the world - including to his own country of origin:“The level of entrepreneurship in the largest Hispanic country in the world that has 130 million people - in Mexico and 40 million living legally or illegally in the United States - is a disaster. It's horrible. It's almost nonexistent. Bitcoin and blockchain, sadly, does not exist in Mexico.”In the spirit of his desire to engage with Bitcoin SV rather than just attack it, Julio has already proposed starting an “Intentioned Community” for those who support the ideas of Craig Wright. In a new post on his LinkedIn profile, he outlines what he has in mind: “Rent one building, let's move twenty entrepreneurs in. Craig's rules, choices, residents, and standards. We'll be 50, 300, and eventually 2,000 tech entrepreneurs in one district in London. Who's down for a #SatoshiVillage? Healthy, long-term, sustainable, tech-fitness oriented community.”Sounds good - a bit like nChain, but healthier!
Blockchain technology is starting to impact other fast-developing tech fields such as AI and IoT. That was the message from two senior representatives of nChain, who are both organising conference events that will bring experts from the different areas together to learn from each other. Owen Vaughan, Chief Science Officer of nChain Licencing and Alessio Pagani, Research Director of nChain were talking on the latest episode of CoinGeek Conversations. Owen is convening a workshop on Blockchain and AI at IEEE Coins 2023 in Berlin in July. And Alessio is doing the same in relation to IoT at the Global IoT Summit, to be held in October. Neither conference is focussed on blockchain but these sessions will bring the expertise of nChain, the London blockchain development company, to a wider audience, as Alessio explained: “that's our role. That's why we are organising a workshop to help those experts in IoT to understand more about blockchain and also for us to have feedback about our research in that field and discuss with the experts - and hopefully share more about BSV and blockchain in general”.In relation to AI, Owen says “it's a time when I think a lot of people are asking the question how can these two great advances in computer science in the twenty-first century talk to one another?” Owen's conference, COINS, sounds as though it would be crypto-related but that's just a coincidence. It's been running since 2019 and COINS stands for Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems.Owen is confident that nChain's work will be useful to AI developers - even if they are not aware of that yet. “They might not realise the technology we've developed could support what they're doing. I'm particularly interested in blockchain for data usage and auditability and things like that or identity management and decision making. And these things are very relevant in AI at the moment.”With IoT, Alessio says it's not just about remote sensors feeding back data from the field - traffic information, for instance, or from actual agricultural fields - but also the personal data that we collect on our phones. Use of the blockchain would remove the third party from that system. So instead of sending the information to one of the tech giants “it gives you back the ownership of the data and it allows for everyone to have access to that data - if you want”. A blockchain system would allow for that kind of control of personal data - so, for instance, Alessio says, you could provide health data for research if you chose to, or restrict the level of detail you allow. There is concern about the power of AI, but Owen says that incorporating blockchain into systems could help provide much-needed accountability - or ‘decision auditability': “so if an AI ever makes a decision, maybe it advises you to make a particular financial trade and you question that in the future it's very convenient to have an audit trail. Why did it make that decision? And this is a whole field of research now called AI Explainability. So I think the blockchain will be very useful in checks and balances …so that we can be sure why [AI) is making decisions and make sure it's compliant with legal, ethical and moral standards.”
Drop 1: zkSync lança primeira mainnet com zkEVM, Era https://thedefiant.io/zksync-era-mainnet-live Drop 2: Xapo Bank, depósitos em stablecoin https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-03-22/xapo-bank-becomes-the-first-fully-licensed-bank-to-enable-usdc-deposits-and-withdrawals Drop 3: Novidades web3 na Game Developers Cconf ImmutableX on zkEVM https://twitter.com/Immutable/status/1637877711346753536 https://tcrn.ch/3n4v0Do Produtora do MapleStory Universe vai lançar modo web3 na Polygon Supernet https://twitter.com/sandeepnailwal/status/1638419926380843010?t=ZmYjbT4BR9pHInHwyAlMTA&s=08 CCP Games (EVE Online) https://www.projectawakening.io/.. More: Crypto dot com recebe aprovação preliminar em Dubai https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-com-gets-mvp-preparatory-license-from-dubai-regulator Coinbase inicia operacoes no Brasil, com on/off ramp via PIX https://cointelegraph.com.br/news/coinbase-officially-sets-foot-in-brazil-with-deposits-and-withdraws-in-reais-through-pix Magic Eden lança suporte a Ordinals, NFTs em Bitcoin https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/21/magic-eden-launches-bitcoin-marketplace-as-ordinal-inscriptions-continue-to-grow/ Protocolo Obligate emite primeiro título na rede Polygon https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/03/22/blockchain-based-debt-protocol-obligate-records-first-bond-issuance-on-polygon-network/ Nested Finance integra com Transak para on-ramp https://twitter.com/NestedFi/status/1638518656836464641?t=wcGP-q6ErFuj5huzf7KtNA&s=19 Visa vai oferecer trading usando BitPanda https://blog.bitpanda.com/en/visa-power-crypto-trading-financial-institutions-bitpanda-technology-solutions Simplify e nChain anunciam parceria para games em Blockchain https://nchain.com/symplify-and-nchain-announce-groundbreaking-partnership-in-responsible-gaming-and-blockchain-technology/ Novo projeto de lei entra no Congresso dos EUA Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BCRA) https://bitcoinist.com/crypto-industry-receives-new-regulatory-bill/ Sony registra patente para transferência de ativos entre plataformas via NFT https://cointelegraph.com/news/sony-eyes-nft-transfers-across-multiple-game-platforms-reveals-patent/ .. Meu conteúdo em inglês https://bi.11fs.com/ Me sigam em blockdrops.lens --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blockdropspodcast/message
As the Philippines embarks on a path to digital transformation, government agencies and various organizations are looking in to blockchain technology as a tool to help the country achieve its goal. Shortly after Ferdinand “Bong Bong” Marcos Jr. was inaugurated as the 17th president of the Philippines last year, his administration announced its desire to streamline government services with the use of new technologies. In response to the government's call, the province of Bataan hosted its first blockchain conference on October of last year. The event was attended by local and international blockchain leaders, as well government officials from the Department of Information and Communications Technology— the agency tasked by the President to implement digitalization in the country. With the aim of putting forward blockchain services to government and businesses, nChain, a global tech company that offers blockchain solutions and products, participated at the event. As Stefan Mathews, nChain co-founder and executive chairman tells Claire Celdran in this episode of CoinGeek Conversations, what followed after the event was a series of talks between nChain and the local government of Bataan that resulted to a memorandum of understanding between the two parties to establish a digital platform for the province to streamline current systems and procedures of government services. “During the event and several meetings afterwards, I had some fairly deep conversations with Governor Garcia and Congressman Garcia and their vision for this technology and the application of it in government is second to none. I mean, they are very, very progressive thinkers.”Bataan is poised to become the country's blockchain hub due to its special economic zone status. Nonetheless, Stefan notes that Bataan's freeport status is irrelevant to nChain's objective. “The reason we're there is the technology and the opportunity to do things with the technology that benefits the province but also benefits the country.” Coincidentally, Stefan has been residing in Bataan for nine years. He believes Bataan is a natural fit for blockchain activity.With the aim of forming partnerships and strengthening relations, nChain recently embarked on a series of meetings with government officials, financial institutions and a top university in the country. As a result of these initiatives, nChain has formed a partnership with Ateneo University in delivering blockchain education to its students. “We will be working with faculty staff to train them on the delivery of blockchain courses, blockchain material.. we will be sponsoring or providing grants or funding projects for three PhD students at the university to extend their research in blockchain here in the Philippines, which also includes making available the entire intellectual property portfolio of nChain for students.. and finally, there is the internship issue, we want to provide internships both in our companies and in terms of what we're doing in Bataan for university students to be able to complete their education.”On top of the work nChain is doing with Ateneo University, Stefan also announced the company's plan to launch a Blockchain Dojo incubator in Bataan. Stefan says the initiative goes hand in hand with their aim to “foster Filipino innovation in the building of solutions on the blockchain that will be deployed domestically, but also potentially, internationally, it also allows us to contribute to possibly uncovering a Filipino unicorn.”Perhaps one of the most memorable part of nChain's recent activities was Stefan's meeting with Philippine President “Bong Bong” Marcos. As Stefan says, the casual conversation which took place over lunch at the presidential palace covered a number of topics pertaining to the delivery of blockchain services in Bataa
The UK government has announced a consultation on crypto regulation. Dr. Wright believes that rather than new regulations, the priority should be to enforce existing financial laws because crypto is not outside the conventional financial system: “I mean, we should just actually start applying the rules and the argument that it's new, that it's online... It's really not.”As far as Bitcoin SV is concerned, new regulation should be welcomed, and probably won't require changes: “it'll just make our life easier as everyone else has to now start doing things that we've been doing already.”On the first of a new series of CoinGeek Conversations, Dr. Wright defends his sometimes aggressive style on social media. He admitted that “some of it” might be seen as the digital equivalent of yelling, but insisted that was “usually only when there's trolls and you want to shut them down”. On a recent YouTube interview he'd had some harsh words about Binance. On CoinGeek Conversations he backs up his view by describing an experiment he'd conducted to demonstrate how someone could make use of it in a way that could allow money laundering: “I set up in one day 10,000 email addresses and registered 10,000 accounts on Binance from the US, both in the US and the foreign Binance where I had a two BTC limit. And in theory, their argument is that they have AML provisions, but that's $40,000 an account. So that's $400 million a day that I could transfer. And I could have added more accounts.”Another way of showing that the ‘crypto' sector isn't operating as it should – if further proof is needed for anyone reading the news recently – is that there are more Bitcoins in total that are claimed to be on exchanges than the 21 million that will ever exist.“I mean in some of these like FTX and Binance together, there were over 40 million Bitcoin being sold …And even when you account for the same thing being sold in multiple exchanges, like some people argued, it's still too much Bitcoin.”As for selling blockchain solutions to industry, Dr. Wright believes there's a big marketing job to be done by nChain and others: “if there's no one telling them, then how do they know?” He compared this phase of developing the blockchain sector to his experience of the early days of the internet, when there were “big, massive conferences, multiday events” to which he was invited. “I went to parties by Cisco [and] from Sun. I got flown around the world when I was young because of Digital Equipment Corporation.”In that spirit (without the free air travel), the London Blockchain Conference is coming up from May 31 to June 2.In a second CoinGeek Conversation show next week, Dr. Wright discusses the origins of Bitcoin and explains how he set it going from his farm in Australia.
Dr. Craig S Wright is an Australian/Antiguan computer scientist, businessman, and inventor, who challenges the world with visionary ideas. Dr. Wright asserts he is the creator of Bitcoin and author of the Bitcoin white paper under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. He is one of the earliest minds behind what we now know as blockchain technology and established nChain to unleash the technology and its intended purpose—now preserved in the form of the Bitcoin SV Node reference implementation and Bitcoin SV. In this episode, Robert and Craig cover numerous interesting topics, including Greek philosophy and Japanese history, discussing if the modern world could be repeating some of the mistakes from the past. They also talk about Craig's life journey and some of the things he has gone through to get to where he is today, including one surprising career choice. Craig also tells us the story of what inspired him to come up with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto and how his knowledge of computer science, law, statistics, and economics gave him the tools to create Bitcoin. Craig recently returned to Twitter and regularly engages with his followers on various topics, including, as you'd expect, blockchain, CBDCs, and the politics surrounding it. Craig has a low tolerance for trolls and time wasters and doesn't hesitate to block them. Despite Craig's formidable public reputation, this interview exposes a softer underbelly showing Craig to be highly personable under the right circumstances with his broad range of knowledge, making for a fascinating conversation. Limited Edition T-shirts - Metatrons Cube Time Tesseract https://bit.ly/40WHk6P Connect with Craig Wright: Website - http://bit.ly/3DqGOov Twitter - http://bit.ly/3JxaxAk Connect with Robert Grant: YouTube - https://bit.ly/3XLP3U6 Instagram - http://bit.ly/3WvjXPD Facebook - https://bit.ly/3kI0tKt Twitter - https://bit.ly/3HvngCb Website - http://bit.ly/40173M3 Subscribe to the Robert Edward Grant Podcast: Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3DdnMSv Apple Podcast - https://apple.co/3iYjt6X YouTube - http://bit.ly/40dm2Tt
To celebrate the end of 2022, the team behind CoinGeek Conversations brings you a festive special edition: the CoinGeek Conversations Christmas Quiz. Diddy Wheldon from Women of BSV, Becky Liggero from CoinGeek and Alessio Pagani from nChain were all put through their paces by CoinGeek's Charles Miller. The contestants' knowledge was tested on subjects including music, Bitcoin SV and former CoinGeek Conversations guests. It was a competitive affair as there could only be one winner, so the guests had to be ready to ring their buzzers as quickly as they knew the answer. Please watch and find out how you score. Thank you for tuning in to CoinGeek Conversations this year, happy holidays and we will see you in 2023 when the show returns for its next sparkling season.
The capability of the Bitcoin SV blockchain to power a new internet will be realised when consumers see just how efficient the technology is, according to Jack Davies, Senior Researcher at nChain. Jack believes that mainstream adoption of complex, blockchain-based technologies, like Web3 and the metaverse, will ultimately be driven by a killer application or implementation that will make using the internet easier for ordinary people. “At the end of the day, the nuts and bolts of the problem will come down to how do you get this in the hands of everyday people and users, how do you get them to see the value that we're talking about.” As he tells Charles Miller on this week's episode of CoinGeek Conversations, this is a subject he understands deeply, thanks to his work on the Metanet, a protocol developed by nChain's Chief Scientist, Dr. Craig Wright. Jack sees the Metanet as a perfect example of how to build interoperable websites and systems using the BSV blockchain. He says that while the idea of putting data on the blockchain might seem commonplace now, when he first joined the company in 2018, it was “quite niche.” One of the features of Bitcoin SV that Jack thinks is most valuable is its capacity to conduct peer-to-peer transactions. This creates an internet of value – a network where assets and money can be transferred over the internet between peers without the need for trusted intermediaries. This combined with Bitcoin SV's scaling ability will allow for the easy application of micropayments, which Jack believes will be game changing in allowing people to monetise content on the internet. He says that allowing customers to pay tiny amounts online to read articles or watch videos they're interested in is more efficient and appealing than traditional advertising or subscription-based models. Jack says that this incarnation of the internet, where users can communicate and transact directly with a native monetary system is what's so appealing about concepts like Web3 and the metaverse and all stems back to the Bitcoin White Paper, which first appeared in 2008. He is a big believer in a regulated digital asset industry and points out that another advantage for retail customers is that Bitcoin SV is much more pro-regulation than other digital currencies, especially BTC. “It's a good thing that people will see through some narratives. Like the idea of BTC as digital gold has clearly not played out particularly well in the last year. I think it's down by some very large percentage right, again, not good for retail consumers.” Indeed, BTC prices have been highly volatile this month following the collapse of FTX, one of the largest digital currency exchanges, and it has seen a nearly 70% drop in value since its all-time high last November. This is disastrous for any retail customers who have put their faith in BTC and demonstrates exactly why Jack is right to say that stricter regulation is necessary to build a strong and reliable BSV ecosystem.
Many farmers in Africa are unbanked and may not even have access to the Internet. But the tech startup E-Livestock Global is offering a blockchain solution for such customers that makes use of an RFID system to trace cows' histories, enabling buyers to learn about a cow's health records among other valuable information. For a subscription fee of just $2 US, a cow is implanted with an RFID tag and its history is updated throughout the animal's lifecycle. The electronic ID system adds value to the livestock, says company CEO Chris Light. Chris, a technologist whose background is in the international development sector, tells Charles Miller on this episode of CoinGeek Conversations, “by getting health care and having it through our system, we're offering [farmers] healthier cows and reduced mortality.” Chris says the platform is designed with the farmers' digital and financial inclusion in mind. As he points out, “some of the pilot farmers, they don't use technology and they're not in the banking system… but they don't need to have a cell phone to use our system, they just need to be enrolled in it.”With the use of blockchain technology, E-Livestock Global delivers an identification system for livestock much as humans can be identified through passports and ID cards. With the use of their service, buyers will be able to purchase cattle remotely and not have to fly to Africa to inspect the animal in person. They simply need to check the data recorded on blockchain. “We use the blockchain for provenance,” Chris says, “so you can't fudge the record - which wouldn't happen with the paper systems.” A pilot study tested their platform in Africa with ten thousand animals. But as Chris reveals, they have access to a market of livestock of up to 25 million to date and plan on branching out to four countries. And it's not just cows that their system can help with. He says it also works with sheep, pigs and goats: “our system is ready to do all that.” The company is hoping to make a public announcement in the near future about the work they are doing with the London-based blockchain development business, nChain. “I think we will get into payments ...we're going to be a little less supply chain but a little more of value add,” he notes. With E-livestock Global's digital system in place, not only will the animals benefit but so will the company's customers, says Chris. “We envision as we get to scale that we're going to have different customers, we're going to have commercial farmers, smallholder farmers, governments and large organizations.”At present, cows have ear tags to help farmers identify cattle for their records. But with E-Livestock's vision, these may not be necessary in the future. So MOOve on over ear tags! Blockchain RFIDs might be here to stay!
Unlock bonus episodes and more benefits at drbitcoinpod.com. Mark and Arthur sit down with patent lawyer David Pearce to discuss the imminent nChain patent war, what's at stake for those involved, and whether nChain's patents actually have any value. Follow us on Twitter at: @drbitcoinpod (the podcast) @twentynothing00 (Mark) @arthur_van_pelt (Arthur) @tuftythecat (David Pearce) You can find Arthur's in-depth Craig Wright pieces at mylegacykit.medium.com.
The Bitcoin Association should be focused on advancing and improving the way Bitcoin SV works rather than just trying to sell the technology, according to Jad Wahab, the Association's Director of Engineering. Jad believes that the role of the Switzerland-based non-profit organisation is to act as a middleman and establish connections with different partners in the space, with a view to making the system as functional to the outside world as it can be. One of the partnerships that the Bitcoin Association has formed that Jad is particularly excited about is the work that it's been doing with nChain and the IPv6 Forum, as he discusses with Charles Miller on this week's CoinGeek Conversations. The three organisations have been working together to integrate Bitcoin SV with IPv6. IPv6 is the updated version of the internet protocol, which was created in 1998 because the original internet architecture (IPv4) was due to run out of IP addresses, which ended up happening in 2011. Jad explains that by using IPv6, Bitcoin can become truly peer-to-peer in the way it was originally invented to be, as there are enough IP addresses for every device that is connected to the internet. “If you don't have a unique address then it's not a direct peer-to-peer, it's not going directly from me to you, it has to go from me to the central hub to your central hub, that's where the peer-to-peer aspect is missing,” he says. Another project that BA has delivered that Jad is confident will have a positive impact on the digital currency space is the software Blacklist Manager, that was released at the beginning of October 2022. Blacklist Manager is a listening tool that can be run by miners to enable nodes to add digital assets identified in a court order to a freeze list. This means that lost or stolen Bitcoin can now be recovered through a legal process, a potentially game changing development which will bring digital asset technology within the remit of the law. “We live in this world where you've got law and legal systems in place, you know, Bitcoin doesn't magically create a new world that lives outside of the purview of existing legal systems that we have right now,” Jad says. Jad believes that it is projects and partnerships like these that will make Bitcoin appealing to outsiders and will lead to its widespread use in the world. He says that he can see Bitcoin SV being more easily deployed in developing countries where traditional systems of money are less widely accepted. For example, he talks about his hometown of Beirut, where the currency has lost more than 90% of its value and citizens no longer use credit cards because they don't trust the banks, saying that he thinks that the lack of financial infrastructure and confidence in legacy systems will make it easier for new technology, like Bitcoin SV, to fill the gap.
Learn more about Osmin Callis in this week's Livestream where she shares her #Bitcoin journey—from her joining global tech company nChain to becoming the woman in charge of London #startup #incubator Satoshi Block Dojo, and now as the Managing Director of Block Venture Studio.Timestamps: 00:00 - Countdown00:40 - Introduction of Kurt Wuckert Jr.04:11 - Osmin Callis' Bitcoin story10:40 - nChain13:47 - BSV culture18:11 - Satoshi Block Dojo24:37 - Block Venture Studio29:01 - Commercialization33:15 - Cohort applications37:43 - Overcoming team issues40:40 - Client-customer partnership43:29 - Business concept45:05 - Scalability49:25 - Blockchain solutions50:42 - Growth and innovation56:18 - Micropayments and reinventing ideas
If you already know that when a computer goes online, it has an IP address - whatever that may be - then you are half way to decoding the mysterious acronym IPV6. The other half is easy: V6 is “version 6”. You may even have more familiarity with IP than you had realised if you are vaguely aware of TCP/IP - which is the way computers communicate, through “Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol”. So, yes, IP is “internet protocol” - not to be confused with IP as in “intellectual property”, the main difference being that the latter provides far more work for lawyers than the computer kind.I was lucky enough to have an explanation of IPV6 on this week's CoinGeek Conversations from Alessio Pagani, a Senior Researcher at nChain, the London blockchain development company. Dr Pagani also has a PhD in Information Technology and is an IMI (Institute of Mathematical Innovation) Industrial Fellow at the University of Bath. Alessio explained that although IPV6 has been around for decades, most networks still use IPV4 - version four. (The other versions - 1, 2, 3 and 5 - which nobody has ever heard of, were test versions and never extensively used.)IPV4 has worked well ever since it was developed in the 1970s. But Alessio says that a problem is emerging that was not foreseen back then: the IP address format relies on a 32 bit address - in other words, 2 multiplied by 2 32 times, which produces 4.3 billion possible addresses. And that's just not enough for today's connected world:“We are seven billion on this planet. We have a lot of IoT devices. I read recently a report saying that by 2025 we will have more than 30 billion devices connected to the internet. If you think about smart watches, you think about TVs, everything is now connected to the internet. The problem is that we don't have enough space for that. So we need a larger address space.”And that's where IPV6 comes in, with a vastly increased capacity: “This could be done with IPV6. Now we have 128 bits, which means 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses.”Unfortunately, changing to IPV6 isn't just a question of flipping a switch, since new network hardware is required, which is expensive to buy and to install. Whilst there are good reasons for networks and businesses to switch to IPV6, nChain is interested because of the additional features it can offer for Bitcoin SV businesses - allowing direct micropayments between users in a way that was not completely secure on IPV4: “In the first node software implementation, there was actually a feature called IP to IP payments. Then this was removed because it was not safe. There were some techniques to steal payments and now we are trying to re-enable it, thanks to IPV6. There are some tricks to send payments using IPV4 …the problem is that this is not efficient. This could pose some security issues, so it's not easy to do it on IPV4. That's why we are focusing on IPV6.”In that sense, IPV6 allows Bitcoin to fulfill its original vision, as headlined in the White Paper, which was headlined: Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
We're delighted to have Craig Wright of nChain back in the studios for some more organic Socratic give and take. Extending beyond the nuances of Intellectual Property, how patents do or do not work and infusing the vicious political fights of our times are the ghosts of thinkers past. It's not just the battles over #Bitcoin as #BTC or #BSV. When you hear people screaming in the public square about what's "fair" or how/if government should intervene in the markets to make things "equal," you're hearing the echoes of religious thinkers extending back 1,000 years to the Dark Ages of Europe. Purely atheistic thinkers focus on the division of material goods, as there is no higher moral consideration at hand. Those coming from a religious tradition often have clearly developed philosophies on what constitutes "proper" economic activity, including whether usury is a sin, what level or type of interest would constitute usury, whether all lending should be forbidden or just whether lending be made more equity-like in its shared risks. Many people fighting their corner are not even aware of the intellectual traditions that spawned their deepest if inchoate convictions. Join Craig and Christopher while they kick around the great moral economic fights that inform our times. It's the most fun you can have without a passel of drunk llamas covered in coca leaves and fresh limes. Once you've let us Swedish massage your brain into fighting shape, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? Click here to get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/messytimes/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/messytimes/support
#Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr visits the Messy Times studios fresh off his trip to Norway. He was visiting the oil-rich Scandinavian paradise to report on the defamation case against a Norwegian schoolteacher who likes to spend his time online hurling adolescent insults at people he has taken a dislike to, in this case, the Chief Scientist of nChain, Craig Wright. So far as I care to bother to discern, this guy Magnus Granath goes by the online moniker HODLONAUT and has spent years sending public and private messages harassing Mr Wright because Granath - the juvenile keyboard warrior trying to hide behind online anonymity - somehow had his ire raised by Mr Wright's authorship of the original Bitcoin White Paper. Join us as we delve into the bizarre quasi-religious Bitcoin Wars (Squabbles? Skirmishes?) that continue to simmer unnoticed by 99.9999% of the planet's inhabitants but have an impact shaping cryptocurrency markets. Don't forget to click "subscribe," even if you hate this channel and never want to hear from us again. Once you've heard about this Norwegian craziness, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? Feel free to tip your server! ☕
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In the first of four CoinGeek Conversations special episodes, we revisit some of our favourite conversations from the last season, on the subject of Bitcoin SV's relationship with the global economy. We hear from Eswar Prasad, Tolani senior Professor of International Trade Policy at Cornell University, and author of ‘The Future of Money', on why competition in the digital asset industry is a good thing; Patryk Walaszczyk, blockchain solutions expert at IBM, discusses the burgeoning relationship between BSV and IBM; Owen Vaughan, director of research at nChain, talks about the role Bitcoin could play in political economics; and Bryan Daugherty, public policy director of the BSV Blockchain Association tells us about his work for the US Department of Defence. Join me, Sarah Higgs, next week as I take another journey down memory lane, picking guests from past shows for an episode featuring four personalities of BSV.
Craig Wright, Chief Scientist at nChain, visited the Messy Times studios for a wide-ranging discussion around technical intellectual property, the origins of blockchain, Bitcoin, the myriad applications and potential confusion about the technology and a future comprised of one blockchain versus the current diverse portfolio of blockchains we have now. We even mourn the loss of Little Britain and poke fun at the woke. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/messytimes/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/messytimes/support
Mark and Arthur examine the merits of Craig Wright's massive new lawsuits against Coinbase and Kraken, nChain letting a Trojan Horse into the camp, Calvin Ayre begging for a deal, and more. To donate to the podcast, please visit https://nowpayments.io/donation/drbitcoinpodcast. Follow us on Twitter @drbitcoinpod. Follow Arthur on Twitter @arthur_van_pelt and read his in-depth Craig Wright pieces on Medium at https://mylegacykit.medium.com.
IPv6 at the BSV Global Blockchain Convention There's been much focus on the IPv6 or the Internet Protocol version 6, an upgrade on the current IPv4. Compared to the latter, IPv6 is known to increase security and privacy functionality on the internet. It's no surprise that IPv6 will be an expected buzz word in the upcoming BSV Global Blockchain Convention in Dubai. On this episode of CoinGeek Conversations, we'll hear nChain chief scientist Dr. Craig Wright discuss the combining power of blockchain technology and IPv6, as well as the founder and president of the IPv6 Forum, Latif Ladid as he explains why BSV is the only blockchain capable of handling IPv6's transactions volume.
Mark and Arthur look back at developments in Craig Wright's legal cases against Peter McCormack and COPA, hear a tin foil hat theory about nChain's patent portfolio, and enjoy eye-opening insights into Calvin and Craig's business practices. To donate to the podcast, please visit https://nowpayments.io/donation/drbitcoinpodcast. Follow us on Twitter @drbitcoinpod. Follow Arthur on Twitter @arthur_van_pelt and read his in-depth Craig Wright pieces on Medium at https://mylegacykit.medium.com.
As nChain's Director of Research, Owen Vaughan's background is in the fields of high energy physics, cryptography and differential geometry. Now at the London research and development company for enterprise blockchain, Vaughan's team provides foundational research in scalable blockchain technology. As he tells Charles Miller in this episode of CoinGeek Conversations, he is witnessing an uptick in individuals who have become experts in Bitcoin technology within the last four years. “We're seeing lots of different groups within the BSV ecosystem engaging in really serious research and understanding at a very fundamental level,” he says. He notes that developers are now capable of maximizing the use of blockchain technology by building applications that require large transactions and scripts - which was not seen several years ago. Vaughan describes nChain as “a wonderfully rich environment in which to research because there's so much to do and so much potential.” He points to a recent nChain discovery around miners validating transactions, saying this opens up a new paradigm in the field of cryptography and zero knowledge proofs. He also mentions the invention of a threshold signature scheme - a potential new product area that could be the best in the market. nChain began as a research-led organization but over time has evolved into a more product-oriented company. It has led Vaughan to believe that understanding the challenges in the market will help them solve issues that lie ahead. One recent company initiative is to deliver digital cash solutions for central banks around the globe. As Vaughan explains, understanding economics is now integral to the work. He says inflation and monetary supply are some of the issues that needs to be properly examined and understood. “We believe we're more than just a tech company, but we are capable of modeling the cash flow in a particular country and explaining what the benefits may be and the challenges involved in moving that to a blockchain based solution.” On the question of nChain's large patent portfolio, Vaughan says patenting is not the goal of the work that they do. But being able to acquire patents demonstrates the justification for the investment in research and helps defend the company and the BSV ecosystem against other operators who have their own patent portfolios.
It was the year in which, despite everything, CoinGeek managed to bring BSVers together in Zurich and New York for two magnificent three day conferences. Both online and in person, they showcased the vibrancy of entrepreneurship around BSV, featuring a host of new projects like Peersend, Haste and Project Babbage, while also digging into its history with blockchain pioneers Stuart Haber and Scott Stornetta and cryptography guru Ian Grigg. Then, of course, there was that trial: the seemingly endless drama in a Miami courtroom in which Dr Craig Wright successfully defended himself against accusations of fraud from the brother of his late friend and colleague Dave Kleiman.And it was the year in which the world learnt, to its bafflement, about blockchain technology through the extraordinary prices being paid for NFTs. So how to sum it all up, from the perspective of the 48 editions of CoinGeek Conversations that were aired in 2021? In the final show of the year Charles Miller was joined by the two founders of the Women of BSV group, Diddy Wheldon and Ruth Heasman and his reporter colleague, Claire Celdran. Their choice of highlights led to discussion that included Terranode, Ira Kleiman's emailing habits, Craig Wright's audiobooks and those ubiquitous NFTs. On that subject, Ruth Heasman was happy to trumpet the advantages of BSV: “comparing the differences between BSV and other blockchains, there's really no one else doing it the way that BSV is doing it at the moment,” she said. “The fees mean, on Ethereum, that generally artists, unless they sell an awful lot or at a very high price, then they're not making any money from their artwork. But on BSV of course, transaction fees are often less than a cent, or certainly less than a few dollars anyway.”Claire Celdran picked a clip that told us something about Craig Wright which had nothing to do with Bitcoin. He was talking about his huge consumption of audio books, sometimes through the night. For Claire, it was a welcome insight into his personality: “he has a certain charm about him because he's smart. And from what I've learnt in the many interviews that I've seen of Craig is that he loves to learn. He's had this never-ending journey, picking on all these courses from different universities. So that's something I admire about him.”It was the potential of Terranode that Diddy Wheldon wanted to highlight, choosing a clip from the Zurich conference in which nChain's CTO Steve Shadders performed a live demo of scaling on the BSV blockchain, which Diddy believed, “proves the point of the scaling debate.” Indeed, Steve's demo showed 50,000 transactions per second, with the promise of at least double that being possible.As for the prospects for 2022, Ruth Heasman confessed she was up for more of the same: “more intrigue. I love it, it's like being part of a soap opera almost, following Bitcoin. But it's fascinating. It's ever changing. It's exciting. And I just couldn't imagine not being in the middle of it. I really couldn't. I love it.”Happy 2022 from CoinGeek Conversations!
Mark and Arthur discuss Craig Wright's rebirth into the Bitcoin world through nChain and BSV, a journey that also takes in a lawsuit spree and an Oceans 11-style computer hack, as his devious strategy becomes clear. To donate to the podcast, please visit https://nowpayments.io/donation/drbitcoinpodcast. Follow us on Twitter @drbitcoinpod. Follow Arthur on Twitter @arthur_van_pelt and read his in-depth Craig Wright pieces on Medium at www.mylegacykit.medium.com.
This week Kurt Wuckert Jr. is joined by Stefan Matthews the CEO and Executive Chairman of TAAL, Executive Chairman of nChain, and Executive Board Member of the Bitcoin Association. Stefan reveals exclusive details of the origins of Bitcoin. His dealings with Dr. Craig S. Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto and the proof sessions with Gavin Andresen.
In today's #ConsciousConversations on the Bitstocks Podcast, Michael Hudson (Bitstocks CEO-Founder) sits down with a highly influential figure in the early evolution of Bitcoin, Stefan Matthews, CEO of TAAL. Today Stefan runs a blockchain infrastructure company, TAAL, that supports enterprises, from processing transactions to directing the massive amount of computing power that TAAL controls. However, if you take it back to 2008, Stefan was a key figure in the e-commerce industry who was handed the Bitcoin whitepaper by none other than Dr Craig Wright. In part 1 of this 2-part episode, Stefan & Michael deep dive into the early days of Bitcoin - revealing Stefan's initial thoughts on the Bitcoin whitepaper, what it was like to know Craig Wright at the beginning of his Bitcoin journey, and how Calvin Ayre was introduced to the Bitcoin world. Stay tuned for exclusive information about Stefan, Craig & the year 2009! Quick Reference: 0:49 - Michael introduces Stefan Matthews & the pair discuss the most recent CoinGeek event 4:42 - Stefan explains his journey in relation to Bitcoin & his early relationship with Dr Craig Wright 15:00 - Stefan's first encounter with the whitepaper 20:25 - Stefan gives the Bitstocks Podcast exclusive, never-before-heard information regarding the year 2009 23:20 - We're now in the year 2015, where Stefan introduces Craig to Calvin 36:52 - Craig's early dispute with the Australian Tax office 43:00 - The beginning of nChain
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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 342. The Bitcoin2021 audience Thanks to the good offices of my friend Vijay Boyapati, author of the new book-length version of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin, the organizers of bitcoin2021 in Miami, June 4-5 2021, graciously gave me two minutes to make an announcement about the Open Crypto Alliance (@OpenCryptoX) and its work, on Saturday June 5. I was introduced by Charlie Shrem. Transcript below. Youtube: https://youtu.be/-ns4R3Y41Lw Note (4/20/22): The video above was taken down by a copyright strike from Bitcoin Magazine (ironically). They have promised to restore it, but in the meantime, here is the backup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVDNEnRAZU4&t=15865s Kinsella and Vijay Backstage with my copy of Vijay's Bullish Case for Bitcoin TRANSCRIPT Bitcoin2021 Announcement: Open Crypto Alliance Stephan Kinsella Bitcoin2021, Miami, June 5, 2021 My name is Stephan Kinsella and I'm a libertarian theorist, patent attorney, and patent abolitionist. I'm a member of the Open Crypto Alliance, recently formed to combat the growing threat to the bitcoin and blockchain ecosystems posed by patents being filed in this space, by companies such as nChain, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, and others. nChain, for example, has over 20 European patents already granted, and hundreds more filed and pending and about 23,000 blockchain and crypto patents have been filed in the last couple years. These patent filings are of grave concern to those of us in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Our partner group, Square's Crypto Open Patent Alliance, or COPA, addresses this problem by having members pledge never to use their crypto-technology patents offensively. However, this is of limited use against patent trolls and patent holders who are not members of the alliance. Our group, the Open Crypto Alliance, is focused on preventing abusive patents from being granted in the first place by trying to knock these patents out. We do this by identifying dangerous patents, finding prior art that the patent office should have considered, and submitting a challenge to the patent. We are actually working on our first challenge and we're seeking help from experts who have a deep understanding of elliptic curve cryptography. If anyone would like to help, please contact us at www.OpenCryptoAlliance.org Thank you.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 342. The Bitcoin2021 audience Thanks to the good offices of my friend Vijay Boyapati, author of the new book-length version of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin, the organizers of bitcoin2021 in Miami, June 4-5 2021, graciously gave me two minutes to make an announcement about the Open Crypto Alliance (@OpenCryptoX) and its work, on Saturday June 5. I was introduced by Charlie Shrem. Youtube and transcript below. https://youtu.be/-ns4R3Y41Lw Kinsella and Vijay Backstage with my copy of Vijay's Bullish Case for Bitcoin TRANSCRIPT My name is Stephan Kinsella and I'm a libertarian theorist, patent attorney, and patent abolitionist. I'm a member of the Open Crypto Alliance, recently formed to combat the growing threat to the bitcoin and blockchain ecosystems posed by patents being filed in this space, by companies such as nChain, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, and others. nChain, for example, has over 20 European patents already granted, and hundreds more filed and pending and about 23,000 blockchain and crypto patents have been filed in the last couple years. These patent filings are of grave concern to those of us in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Our partner group, Square's Crypto Open Patent Alliance, or COPA, addresses this problem by having members pledge never to use their crypto-technology patents offensively. However, this is of limited use against patent trolls and patent holders who are not members of the alliance. Our group, the Open Crypto Alliance, is focused on preventing abusive patents from being granted in the first place by trying to knock these patents out. We do this by identifying dangerous patents, finding prior art that the patent office should have considered, and submitting a challenge to the patent. We are actually working on our first challenge and we're seeking help from experts who have a deep understanding of elliptic curve cryptography. If anyone would like to help, please contact us at www.OpenCryptoAlliance.org Thank you.
In today’s #ConsciousConversations on the Bitstocks Podcast, Michael Hudson (Bitstocks CEO-Founder) sits down with Branden Lee, CEO-Founder of Elas Digital, a software engineering company focussed on leveraging the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision blockchain & technology to deliver solutions to business problems. In his introduction, Brendan reveals that he believes a baffling mental health episode combined with a bizarre work situation in 2017 was the universe offering him a unique opportunity to explore Bitcoin technology. Fast forward to date, and Brendan has immersed himself in the Bitcoin industry, with connections to many BSV-based businesses. Michael and Brendan enjoy an animated conversation about how broken the BTC network and philosophy is, and question how - some four years on from the ‘war’ - the general public are still being duped into believing that BTC is what Bitcoin was intended for. Crunching the numbers clearly shows it’s not a sustainable and viable option for the future. Michael shares his analogy of Bitcoin as a body, yet to take its first breath, and the pair both express their optimism for the incredible and widespread opportunities available with Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV). Turning their attention to the BSV space, Michael asks Brendan some challenging questions about his perception of the BSV community and certain businesses, honing in specifically on nChain, before asking him to explain the Metanet. The conversation rounds off by exploring the Tuvalu project, before closing with a recap of the amazing work and courses on offer from The Bitcoin Association.
In today’s #ConsciousConversations on the Bitstocks Podcast, Michael Hudson (Bitstocks CEO-Founder) sits down with the inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, aka, Dr Craig Wright for part 2 of this 2-part interview. In part 1, Michael & Craig took a deep dive into a variety of topics, including global affairs, machine learning & quantum theories. In the second part of the interview, Craig reveals more about his UK copyright infringement case & how he was not ‘forced’ into court at all. Following on from nChain conversations in part 1, Michael continues to ask Craig about how nChain collaborates with other businesses in the BSV space, their patents & ultimately trying to discover their intent as a business. It’s not long before this leads into the long-awaited conversation about Craig’s recent court battle with his Bitcoin copyright infringement case, which results in insight into how Craig sees the Bitcoin protocol. As promised, the episode ends with Michael asking Craig questions from the community, taken from Bitstocks’ Twitter (@bitstocks_) callout a few days prior to filming the interview. The two, of course segway into a debate about Tesla vs Edison before wrapping up the conversation with a discussion about the journey of self-mastery.
Tuvalu may be the fourth smallest country in the world, but it hasn’t let that get in the way of its giant ambitions. The island nation announced in December 2020 that it plans to create the world’s first national digital ledger, using Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain technology.The plan is to migrate to a completely digital infrastructure, with Tuvalu choosing BSV for its scalability and efficiency. The news has already made waves in the BSV ecosystem but could it go further and show the world what can be done on BSV?One of those behind the project, Brendan Lee, CEO of Elas Digital, certainly thinks so. He told Charles Miller, on this week’s episode of CoinGeek Conversations that he is confident the project will be an “eye-opener to other people who are looking in, at just what’s possible when you use Bitcoin in this way.”He believes that the scheme is “a fabulous opportunity… to demonstrate what’s possible” and hopes that the success of the project will encourage other nations, even the US, to follow suit.The digital transformation is being led by a partnership between Elas Digital, developers nChain, BSV consultancy firm Faiā and the Tuvaluan government.Brendan first heard about the project after seeing an article on Medium by his former colleague, the MD of Faiā, George Siosi Samuels. He was intrigued and reached out to George who was keen to involve him.The three companies all bring unique strengths to the project. Elas has been integral in designing the initial concept, nChain brings developmental expertise and Craig Wright’s Metanet while Faiā’s community-driven approach will ensure the project’s utility for the people of Tuvalu. They aim to build “the highest velocity financial and administrative service in the world.” This will include the digitisation of government documents and the introduction of a tokenised cash system which will sit on top of the Tuvaluan currency (the Australian dollar). The digitisation of government records will make it easier for the government to access and verify the source of data. And Brendan believes that a digital cash system will also prove extremely valuable for Tuvalu, a country which has “a very difficult time actually keeping enough cash in circulation for the economy to function properly.”Brendan explains that his understanding of the islands’ needs is derived from public consultations and ongoing dialogue with government ministers.He has also been able to lean on George’s Tuvaluan heritage. George’s mother was born on one of the islands. This has allowed the team to approach the project with a better understanding of what’s appropriate and how the ledger will fit into islanders’ lives.This has been vital as one of Brendan’s core goals is eventually “handing it over to them and allowing them to use it to build a record of their own culture and heritage.”At the moment, Brendan is focusing on a few starter projects, including a portal for citizenship applications which he hopes to have up and running by the end of the year. After that, he is confident that the process will speed up and prove to the world just what’s possible on BSV.
Originally broadcast on Feb 4. This is one-year anniversary of the Bitcoin SV genesis upgrade, Kurt Wuckert Jr. was joined for live Q&A, discussions on the history of the upgrade as well as the importance. He was also joined by special guests Connor Murray of Britevue, Jack Davies of nChain and Matej Trampuš of CREA.
nChain are part of a small consortium are working on a project with the Tuvalu govt to put all of its records on a digital ledger – aka Blockchain, thus becoming the first country to do so. Tuvalu, comprises 9 islands, has a domestic revenue of $60m (a chunk of which comes from its ownership […]
Wszystkie dobre podcasty o kryptowalutach https://darmowekrypto.org.pl/podcasty-----------------------------------------Krypto Newsy Lite #163 | 12.02.2021 | Ripple patentuje ODL na XRP, Miami kupuje Bitcoina, Pierwszy ETF w Ameryce Północnej, Airdrop 1inchFirma Ripple patentuje ODL na XRP. Patent przyznał amerykański USPTO. Dzięki temu mogą używać swojej technologii do przelewów międzynarodowych i nie patrze na to co robi nChain i Craig Wright.Miasto Miami jest pierwszym, które kupuje Bitcoina i będzie w nich przechowywać część swojego skarbca. Dodatkowo obywatele będą mogli płacić podatki w Bitcoinie. Super!A pozostając w Ameryce Północnej, Kanada będzie miała pierwszy ETF Bitcoina. A kiedy USA? Dodatkowo kolejny airdrop od 1inch. Zapraszam na piątkowe wiadomości ze świata kryptowalut i technologii blockchain, czyli Krypto-Newsy Lite. Prowadzi jak zwykle Mike Satoshi.Spis treści:[]Wstęp[]Dogecoin wznawia pracę - https://bitcoinpl.org/programisci-dogecoin-wznawiaja-prace-po-dwuletniej-przerwie/[]Jed McCaler sprzedał ponownie XRP - https://bitcoinpl.org/jed-mccaleb-sprzedal-140-milionow-xrp-w-tydzien/[]Pierwszy ETF w Ameryce Północnej - https://comparic.pl/ameryka-polnocna-doczekala-sie-pierwszego-bitcoin-etf/[]5 konkurentów dla Uniswap - https://beincrypto.com/5-decentralized-exchanges-dexs-taking-on-uniswap/[]Kolejny airdrop 1inch - https://cointelegraph.com/news/defi-aggregator-1inch-stages-new-vampire-airdrop-to-uniswap-users[]CEO wielkich firm piszą o Bitcoinie - https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-new-...[]JPMorgan wejdzie w Bitcoina - https://cointelegraph.com/news/jpmorg...[]Wieloryby kupują kryptowalut razem z ulicą - https://cointelegraph.com/news/cointe...[]Kirgistan wypuści licencje dla giełd - https://cointelegraph.com/news/kyrgyz...[]Czekamy na supercykl Bitcoina - https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoi...[]BitPay wprowadza obsługę Apple Pay - https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-payme...[]Dark Web marketplace zamyka się - https://coinfomania.com/dark-web-oper...[]Jack Dorsey i inni wspierają rozwój Bitcoina - https://coinfomania.com/jack-dorsey-l...[]Miami kupuje Bitcoina - https://coinfomania.com/miamis-mayor-...[]Mastercard obsłuży wybrane kryptowaluty - https://dailyhodl.com/2021/02/12/paym...[]Ripple patentuje ODL na XRP - https://dailyhodl.com/2021/02/12/ripp...[]Andrew Yang chce, aby Nowy Jork był przyjazny krypto - https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2021/02/12...[]Microsoft, Enjin i NFT w Minecraft - https://thedailychain.com/microsoft-and-enjin-unite-to-launch-special-edition-minecraft-nfts/[]Binance uruchamia staking Cardano i Atom - https://beincrypto.pl/binance-uruchamia-staking-cardano-ada-cosmos-atom/[]Podsumowanie-------------------------Listy Twitter:Krypto-Naród: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1310182514137407502Krypto/blockchain Polska: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1320830727488000006KRYPTO-NARÓD POLSKA SPOŁECZNOŚĆ KRYPTOWALUT: https://krypto-narod.pl/Na tej stronie znajdziecie linki do wszystkich najlepszych, polskich twórców w tematyce kryptowalut i technologii blockchain.OFICJALNY SKLEP Z GADŻETAMI KANAŁU MIKE SATOSHI http://kryptonarod.store/ZOSTAŃ PATRONEM KANAŁU MIKE SATOSHI https://patronite.pl/mike-satoshi-----------------------------------------Jeżeli chciałbyś wesprzeć rozwój i działania kanału, możesz przekazać dotację: https://tipanddonation.com/mikesatoshi lub PayPal: paypal.me/mikesatoshi Portfele do dotacji krypto są tutaj: https://cryptokoks.wixsite.com/mikesatoshi/dotacje ----------------------------------------- Mój kanał na YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEX4iDKLfxtIJY6IVgMSqCQE-mail do kontaktu: cryptokoks@gmail.com Oficjalny Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mikey_Satoshi Kanał na DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/mikesatoshi Grupa KryptoNaród na FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/230649241027530/ Grupa KryptoNaród na Discord: https://discord.gg/CPTSa43 Airdropy i inne sposoby na darmowe kryptowaluty: https://darmowekrypto.org.pl -----------------------------------------
Craig Wright is a lockdown sceptic. Masks and isolation policies “don’t make a difference”, he says. Dr Wright, the Chief Scientist of nChain, says he’s studied epidemiology and is convinced that, despite appearances and government claims, death rates are no worse than usual because “everything else has gone down equal to the number of Covid deaths”. He had the disease himself “months ago” and dismisses the experience as “terrible for a day”. The real damage from government response to the pandemic, he says, is long term. The disruption in trade affects developing countries: “if you look at the people in Sri Lanka who are not getting fed, the increases in poverty in African countries, the increases in poverty in Bangladesh etc., what we're seeing is individuals who now are being marginalised and pushed into poverty for the first time in a long time.” As the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, Dr Wright is also sceptical about BTC’s recent dramatic price volatility, dismissing it as “purely manipulation”. He says that it would take thousands of times the amount of currency inflows seen in the crypto market to change the price of gold to the same extent. With BTC, “what we have is a very small market and it’s easy to be manipulated”. Dr Wright was talking in a wide-ranging interview for the CoinGeek Conversations podcast. In looking back to Bitcoin’s early days, he said that around the time that he released the Bitcoin White Paper in October 2008, he had just returned to Australia from a trip to Microsoft headquarters in Seattle where he’d been discussing a possible role in the Bing search engine and click fraud team.The 2008 financial crisis put an end to all hiring at Microsoft so it didn’t come to anything but, he said, “I had a whole lot of ideas which Bitcoin would have been part of”. He wanted Microsoft to introduce a Bitcoin-based Internet as a competitor to the ad-based model: “I thought rather than the way Google's doing things, if they could implement micro-payments and have all this run that way, that would actually be a far more effective methodology.”So does he regret not being able to develop Bitcoin at Microsoft? Wright says that there would have been advantages to him personally in terms of resources and remuneration but that it would have been “an easy life versus something better but more challenging.”Around that time Wright wrote an essay as part of what he calls this “self-reflective” period in his life. Only published last year, Sisyphus Impenitant refers to the Greek myth of Sisyphus who was punished by Zeus for trying to defy death by having to push a rock uphill, only to have it always roll back to the bottom. For Wright, it was a way of examining personal pressures: “Warrior. Father. Husband. A trilogy of competing stresses.” He rated himself more highly as a warrior and husband than a father. Wright is known for his long list of academic qualifications and love of acquiring more. He referred, for instance, to an essay he wrote as part of a Masters in English Literature, about one of Shakespeare’s sonnets in which he speculates about the poem’s relation to Elizabeth I and contemporary historical events. In a previous interview he said he was taking 25 degree courses simultaneously. Now he says he’s finished some of those, but that last year he read 2400 books. That works out at an average of six and a half per day. Asked how that’s possible, he says, “I read very fast” and “some books are smaller than others”.
Craig Wright sits down with Patrick McLain at REIMAGINE 2020 v4.0 to talk about how digital platforms replace aspects of society, how the current lockdown situation is amplifying their political power, and how governments are starting to act (i.e. Bitmex). Find more information about host and guest here. Twitter nChain: https://twitter.com/nchainglobal LinkedIn nChain: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nchain/ Website nChain: https://nchain.com/ Website Craig Wright: https://craigwright.net/
Kompany provides advanced solutions to financial institutions and corporations on identity verification. It offers a quick and efficient way to do business verification. With this being a legal requirement for global businesses, Kompany have positioned themselves as the go to company, on a global scale. Having previously built up the verification system for the UK's Companies House, Kompany CTO and co-founder Peter Bainbridge-Clayton is well versed on the processes. Peter sat down with CoinGeek’s Natalie Mason to talk about his company’s journey, how it fits in perfectly on the blockchain and why they are moving forward on Bitcoin SV over other chains. So why did Kompany opt for blockchain? “Blockchain is good on proof” Peter says. “When you look at legal intricacies this [Blockchain] is the best way of doing it, it’s the only way that guarantees it can’t be gamed.” Kompany assures their customers that they are capable of proving to regulators that these “checks” were carried out. He points out, “the last thing customers want is to be fined for not doing checks and not being able to prove they did it.” Like many start-ups, Kompany had to undergo several phases before it can catapult to success. In its initial stages, Kompany used Ethereum for its reputable smart contracts, as Peter explains, but Ethereum’s speed capacity was a drawback. Its slow speed would refrain Kompany from responding to its customers instantaneously. This led Kompany to try faster chains like Hyperledger. Granted it proved faster than Ethereum for Kompany’s needs, Hyperledger is on a private chain and that was an issue and not quite the right model. Finally, nChain introduced Peter to Bitcoin SV. This ushered-in an opportunity for Peter to learn about BSV blockchain capabilities. At present, he is convinced that BSV is the right fit for Kompany. “BSV has everything we wanted- speed, consensus, cost, built-in time stamp and native token” he says. “We built a marketplace for this kind of information so that information becomes tokenized and can be traded.” Kompany will undergo some finishing touches before it is implemented. Its plan, to have a fully on chain request response system. It’s a promising agenda and is definitely one worth looking out for. To know more about Peter Bainbridge-Clayton and how Kompany is building a valid use-case on the blockchain, checkout this episode of CoinGeek Conversations.
GeoSpock is a Cambridge technology company with its roots in the city’s science research community. CEO Richard Baker explained that his co-founder Steve Marsh was researching an area that appears to be very different from where GeoSpock is focussed today: “back in 2010, 2011, [Steve] was doing his PhD in computer engineering at Cambridge and he set about the challenge of building a supercomputer to emulate one second of human brain function.”What connects Steve’s research with GeoSpock’s current interest in data from sources such as roads, traffic signals and supply chains is, as Richard puts it, “how you deal with extreme datasets”.The secret lies in creating a “parallel environment ...which is all about serial communication.” That allows the speeding up of access to data in large data stores, and to GeoSpock’s claim that whatever query is applied to the data they are working with, they will have an answer in less than a minute. Richard points out that people are no longer the biggest producers of data: that honour (or shame) is now claimed by machines. As devices connected to the Internet of Things generate more and more data, that creates new problems for technology, and society: “the challenge there is, as this data is pervasive, how do you harness it and how do you translate it into meaningful insights and into decisions ultimately?”GeoSpock’s software will allow the company to be working in an area that Richard believes can be described as “change for good”. The technology should work across a broad range of industries. Richard gives examples of the kinds of problems he’d hope to be solving: “how do we generate city environments that are good for citizens? How do you ensure that they are clean, that there's low CO2? How do you plan clean and efficient transport systems? How do those transport systems actually function?”So how does Bitcoin come into GeoSpock’s plan? And why did nChain recently announce its connection with the company as the lead partner in a $5.4m Series A investment round? Richard explains that while today, the company uses Amazon Web Services, he is planning a shift towards BSV, whose combined data storage and transaction opportunities could prove ideal in the future: “Why isn't Bitcoin SV, both in terms of protocol, but also in terms of what organizations like TAAL are doing, the alternative store? We really see a situation where today we're dealing with event information coming from sensors, but actually the next step is really dealing with the commercial transactions.”If the idea of an intimate connection between data and money seems unfamiliar, think again. Isn’t that what happens, in a very manual way, every time you fill up your car at a garage? Well, why not automate the process? “We should be able to plug in our car and our car settles for the amount of time that it's been on the charging station in a public space. That ultimately will become a machine to machine commercial transaction. And I think we see an opportunity here where Bitcoin SV becomes the digital ledger of choice for those types of transactions in the machine to machine economy.”
“Art washes from our souls the dust of everyday life,” claimed Pablo Picasso. But while that may still be true of art and everyday dust, Bitcoin SV is changing attitudes to its own variety of dust. Bitcoin dust is a computational leftover, a by-product of transactions measured in minute quantities of Satoshis (one Satoshi being a ten millionth of a Bitcoin). Until now, these leftovers were too small to be worth worrying about – or, more precisely, would cost more to do something with than their own value.But now, as the CTO of nChain, Steve Shadders, explains, new possibilities for making use of dust are becoming available: “there is really nothing revolutionary about this at all. All it required was to remove some artificial restrictions that had been put in place quite a few years ago.”Now it will be possible to ‘clean up’ data that is actually costing the miners money to maintain, by allowing them accept ‘piles’ of dust, which, added together, are worth something: “it's probably not the end of the world if you never did clean it up. But it turns out that there is a way that you can clean it up relatively cheaply or almost for free and provide a net benefit for everybody involved.”So that’s useful, up to a point, in tidying up the records that have to be kept on the Bitcoin blockchain. But this capability also opens up new possibilities for providing services which, until now, would not have had an economic model, because their units of revenue would have been too small. But in future, nanopayments could provide the basis for new kinds of businesses. Steve explains: “the idea behind collecting a whole lot of individual bits of dust and putting them together to turn it into a more useful denomination of Bitcoin opens up the idea of a service provider being able to charge so little for a service that it falls into the realm of dust, but be able to actually accumulate that value until they reach a point where they've got enough of it to collect together and turn it into meaningful value.”So what kind of business models might be able to take advantage of dust accumulation? Steve mentions functions including micro-computations and payments for validating a Bitcoin signature. There’s also been talk of its use in Internet of Things applications, where millions of pieces of data are being collected from sensors in the environment. Steve is reluctant to speculate in much detail about the opportunities: “now that this this model has been demonstrated, it's going to be up to other creative minds to work out how that maps onto a business model.”But he adds, intriguingly: “I can think of a few myself that are very fundamentally to do with how Bitcoin works in the back end and the infrastructure required to make Bitcoin work. So that's enough to convince me that there is a use case, which suggests to me that there's probably plenty of other models out there that I haven't thought of.”That sounds like a challenge to BSV entrepreneurs. We have already seen an ecosystem of startups based on micropayments. Are we at the start of a ‘second wave’ based on nanopayments?
Craig S. Wright, Data Scientist at nChain Host: Patrick McLain, COO at MouseBelt Labs Twitter nChain: https://twitter.com/nchainglobal nChain: https://nchain.com/ Craig Wright: https://craigwright.net/
Dustin Plantholt’s “Life’s Tough—You Can Be Tougher” podcast this week features Dr. Craig Wright, an Australian/Antiguan computer scientist, businessman, lecturer and inventor. Acknowledged by some as the creator of Bitcoin and author of the Bitcoin white paper under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, Dr. Wright is one of the pioneers behind blockchain technology and established nChain to allow the technology to flourish in its intended purpose. Born in Australia in October of 1970, Dr. Wright graduated from high school in 1987 from Padua College in Brisbane—Australia’s third most populous city—and then began his professional career as an adjunct academic and researcher at Charles Sturt University, where he was working on his PhD entitled "The Quantification of Information Systems Risk." Wright’s PhD in computer science from Charles Sturt University was awarded to him in February 2017. Dr. Wright has more than 25 years of experience in the fields of information technology and security, having worked for various companies, including OzEmail, K-Mart, the Australian Securities Exchange and Mahindra & Mahindra. He was involved in the design of the architecture for possibly the world's first online casino, Lasseter's Online (based in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, AU), which went online in 1999. In addition, he was the information systems manager for the accounting firm BDO Kendalls and was the CEO of the technology firm Hotwire Preemptive Intelligence Group (Hotwire PE), which planned to launch Denariuz Bank, the world's first bitcoin-based bank, though it encountered regulatory difficulties with the Australian Tax Office and failed in 2014. He has been a lecturer and researcher in computer science at Charles Sturt University, authored many articles, academic papers, and books, and frequently speaks publicly at conferences on IT, security, Bitcoin, and other topics relating to digital currency. As one of the most highly qualified digital forensics practitioners in the world, Dr. Wright has personally conducted in excess of 1,200 engagements related to IT security for more than 120 Australian and international organizations in the private and government sectors, including 15 Commonwealth states. Dr. Wright has held senior executive positions with companies focused on digital currency, digital forensics, and IT security. Among his positions, he was the vice president of the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace and Security Science (CSCSS; www.cscss.org) with a focus on collaborating government bodies in securing cyber systems. Dr. Wright also worked on systems that protected the Australian Stock Exchange and has trained Australian government and corporate departments in SCADA security, cyber warfare, and cyber defense. Many of Dr. Wright’s research findings and publications continue to be presented at academic and business conferences. As the Chief Scientist at nChain, Dr. Wright oversees the scientific functions of the company, including basic and applied research projects and the development of new processes, technologies, and products. He leads a team of world-class blockchain engineers and researchers who strive to deliver cutting-edge solutions to global clients. Among his many achievements are industry certifications: GSE CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCE, GCFA, GLEG, GREM, and GSPA, and in addition to his PhD from Charles Sturt University, he has a Doctor of Theology (ThD) from United Theological College awarded in 2003, a master’s degree in Statistics, and a master’s degree in International Commercial Law. Dr. Wright is currently a candidate for two additional PhDs: in Law at the University of Leicester and Applied Mathematics at University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Join Dustin and Dr. Craig Wright for an open conversation on the pitfalls and triumphs of his career in this emerging world-changing phenomenon—blockchain and cryptocurrency—and hear how he ignores the naysayers and propels forward to educate our world.
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nChain is the world’s leading provider of enterprise-grade blockchain solutions, helping businesses and organizations realize and protect the value of their data. nChain boasts the largest team of blockchain developers globally and a leading portfolio of novel blockchain I.P. nChain is committed to helping clients maintain competitive advantage in business through more efficient management of data. The company has a vision of a world where people, businesses, and organizations are yielding significant value from a more efficient data economy. The company is in the business of enterprise-grade public blockchain solutions and security that is scalable and business-ready. The team is also backed by two Bitcoin heavyweights, Calvin Ayre and Craig Wright. Collectively, they believe that data is going to be the single most important commodity over the next 5-10 years, and the only way that is possible is if it is captured and made actionable. This is where nChain, which manages and uses BitCoin S.V.’s technology comes in. The CEO, Dave Washburn, shares his unique perspective that he brings to the business. Before joining nChain, David spent 17 years in capital markets and is a PHD Physiology & Biophysics. This blend of both traditional industry knowledge combined with nChain’s deep bench of blockchain and bitcoin experts, makes this an interesting company to watch. It’s not for nothing that representatives of the Suisse and Norwegian national banks are in talks with nChain to explore digital national currencies.
Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer node design solves security problems, Dr Craig Wright explained. Even if more than half the nodes are compromised - which would be hard -, the network can still be recovered: “if there's a single uncompromised node, it provides a legal evidence trail. So when people say ‘a 51 percent attack’, it's actually more resilient than even that. If you have one percent of the network providing actual valid information and not the attack, you now have a legally verifiable evidence trail that can be rebuilt.”In a wide-ranging interview in front of an audience of developers and entrepreneurs at the Cambrian SV event in Lisbon in February, Dr Wright, Chief Scientist of the London blockchain and Bitcoin research company nChain, was talking about the fundamentals of Bitcoin - his creation as Satoshi Nakamoto, back in 2009. He was in conversation with Ryan X. Charles, the founder of Money Button, who wanted to learn more about Dr Wright’s thinking when he created Bitcoin.Dr Wright said that unlike security attacks on Windows or Linux, where the discovery of a single vulnerability can cause widespread problems, the development of a network of mining farms for Bitcoin SV means that an attempted attack would be the equivalent of “having to attack multiple companies with multiple different security policies, multiple implementations. And that’s far more difficult”.And as the BSV ecosystem develops, its distributed nodes will become increasingly differentiated, making it even more secure: “in the future, I see the one [BSV] protocol, but I see individual mining farms will start developing their own software. Some of this already happens and it will be a more effective and efficient version for them ...and that will make it more and more complex for anyone attempting to attack the network.”What’s more, the incentive design behind the node system means that its size self-regulates as individual nodes join or leave: “if you have, say, 100 distributed global nodes in big companies and data centres ...imagine what happens if something happens to one of the nodes - they're suddenly taken out in a disaster or hacker attack or something like this ...The profitability remains the same overall. So those other remaining nodes earn more. And this is the wonder of economics. So people see profit and once profit is distributed and noticed and seen, then other people will go, ‘oh, it's time to turn on my node’ ...And the network will self-heal because people will will see the money and see the suddenly increased profit margin from mining this area and will have idle machines that they turn on.”After discussing the security design of Bitcoin, Dr Wright went on to explain how, in contrast, private blockchains fall far short of what he had built with Bitcoin: “a private blockchain is an anathema. It's anti security ...It just means you've massively misunderstood the entire technology and have just used jargon to make up some junk because the entire security of the system is [based on] publishing widely.”
There are more problems that Bitcoin could solve than Craig Wright, nChain’s Chief Scientist, can ever deal with: “I have an infinite amount of things that I would happily have people doing. I just don't have the resources to have an infinite number of people working for me. But the reality is there are so many different problems.”Dr Wright was answering questions from the audience at the Cambrian SV developers conference in Lisbon in February, in a session chaired by Money Button’s CEO, Ryan X. Charles. He criticised some of the big companies backed by Silicon Valley investors, such as Uber and WeWork - the latter for its self-image as a tech company at all (“I mean, 'we're a technology company because we put sensors on the doors'. I mean, really?) Some tech companies pick non-problems, he said: “problems that are being created so that they can raise money. And what you should be doing is problems that are real problems - and the world is full of them.” For Craig, there’s too much emphasis on winning venture capital: “ignore the Silicon Valley idea of you just raise money. What you really need to do is find a way of making something profitable.”As to where he was putting his own research efforts, in answer to a question about the use of blockchain to design secure voting systems, Craig talked about ways of establishing pseudonymous identities and did admit that “there are some areas that I'm working on at the moment doing all these things. So I know a little bit about it. But because I'm a nasty person who patents everything, I'm not going to actually tell you all the solutions we've got until they're ready.”Getting down to the basics about the way he, as Satoshi Nakamoto, had designed Bitcoin, Craig talked about SPV - Simple Payment Verification -, the system that allows transactions between Bitcoin users to be made directly, peer to peer, as set out in the original White Paper. Whilst blockchain nodes record every transaction on every block, that’s not practical for every user: the system wouldn’t scale if that was required. Instead, the individual user has “a lightweight client that doesn't have the full node, doesn't keep all the blocks, just maintains block headers and its own information. So it scales a lot better because rather than having to have petabytes of information for every phone in the future, then all you need is the block information, because the reality is that you don't need to or want to validate every single transaction on earth.” Originally, this kind of peer to peer transaction was thought of in terms of IP to IP address, but Craig said there are other systems that could also be used. He mentioned, as an example, a distributed Bluetooth network called Bridgefy, which he said could be useful if a government was trying to close down the Internet: “what do you do? You just turn on Bridgefy and you hop between phones. And you end up with a wide distributed peer network and SPV could be built on something like that as well. So I said IP to IP, but I'd like to see Bridgefy. And I'd like to see all these other protocols as well.”Craig explained that it wasn’t just financial transactions that could use such a network. Messages could also be attached to transactions and “no one on chain will ever know. So we can privately maintain information as well as publicly exchanging.”
Jerry Chan’s new job as CEO of the Canadian technology company TAAL is not just a great opportunity for him, but also a kind of liberation. Jerry’s career has included spells at big investment banks Goldman Sachs and J.P.Morgan. Since he got interested in Bitcoin, around 2015, he has championed financial and technological innovation in the corporate world. But it’s been an uphill struggle: “It's always been a very big drain on my time and resources, having to convince upper management of building prototypes to do something new,” he says. “It's not really politically easy to start a new business line which will cannibalize your old ones, the ones that have been producing for you over decades. So therefore it's always gonna be a challenge politically.”Now at last, at TAAL, he doesn't need to persuade a conservative boss that it’s worth pursuing radical new ideas: “the thing which immediately made me jump at this role was the chance to have the reins of a company in the space that has the right vision.”So what is the vision for TAAL? Well, the company formerly known as Squire Mining is making a major pivot, away from mining and towards transaction processing on the Bitcoin SV blockchain. That means adopting a business model which looks to transaction fees for income instead of the traditional miner’s income from block rewards, which Jerry calls “a subsidy model”. Block rewards are currently going through one of their occasional step-change halvings, because of the way Bitcoin was originally programmed, making all miners of the Bitcoin blockchain suddenly less profitable and any alternative therefore more attractive.As befits a former member of the financial establishment like Jerry, TAAL Distributed Information Technologies Inc., to give it its full name, is very much a play-by-the-rules company. It’s publicly listed on the Canadian stock exchange for instance. Jerry believes that TAAL’s very conventionality is showing the way to other mining businesses: “the miners are going to have to come out of the dark. Come out of the mines, as it were, and be transparent, be above board ...they have to come out of the woodwork and actually run a legitimate business very much in the open”.But does TAAL want competition from other, equally forward-looking transaction processors? “I honestly welcome more players that jump in,” Jerry insists, “this is an industry where I do believe that the more players there are, the bigger the pie grows, the more profitable we all become. And so I don't intend to drive a strategy with a goal of monopoly, for instance. Because growing the ecosystem and the market is more important than growing any one company.”Nevertheless, TAAL is positioned well to defend itself against competitors. It’s just signed a “strategic deal” with nChain, the London blockchain research and development business, which, Jerry says, “gives us access to licence some of the patents that they have, which are very, very applicable to the transaction processing business.”One aspect of TAAL’s business model that is largely out of its hands is the size of the market for transaction processing. That depends on the development of the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. “We're definitely at the mercy of the actual ecosystem producing the amount of transactions that are required in order for transaction processors to remain profitable.” Jerry sees a four-year window in which that must happen, starting this year.There are hopeful signs, with the US healthcare company EHR Data, for instance, talking about the possibility of generating up to 32 billion transactions a year if they can put America’s prescriptions on chain. It sounds a huge job, but Jerry is confident it can be done: “totally possible, totally&
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Daniel Diemers started out as a coder in the Eighties. Interested in the interactions between international gamers in the earliest stages of online multiplayer gaming, he studied trust-building among virtual communities as his PhD subject. Digital native Daniel was able to grab the attention of big corporations, even back then during the first dot-com era. Fast forward to today, and as a business strategy consultant, Daniel makes the world of blockchain accessible to the world’s biggest corporate players. “Digitalization for corporations is quite a complex thing,” he says. “It’s not just blockchain; they're looking at other technologies depending on the industry - drones or robots or augmented reality, virtual reality. So, in the boardrooms today the heat is rising because the exponential technologies are coming with full force.”The “fascinating thing about the blockchain ecosystem” is the high levels of engagement and communication online. “They interact almost like tribes”, says Daniel, “and of course, now it touches the borders of the large corporates. And they're looking at this and they see it. It's a different language. It's different values.” In this week’s CoinGeek Conversations podcast, Charles Miller asked how Daniel’s discussions of blockchain play out in the boardroom. They involve dispelling the hype, myths and negative perceptions, Daniel replied, whilst also showing the opportunities. “Ignore all the Silk Road stories. Topics like criminals and fraud; this has been riddling our industry now for the past years. It's no secret. I mean, that was in the past. We’re going into the future …As a strategy consultant, when I work with clients, I always look at the opportunities. I look at growth …I try to take a fair and square look at it, saying these are the opportunities. You can either wait or you can dive in now and give them the options.” For Daniel, the most important sell is also the hardest one: a global logistics solution that exists on chain. “I see a risk in that most pilots are not that spectacular. Because if you don't pursue the big vision but you go after a very small little tiny use case, then they jump on a permission blockchain for that and they don't see the benefit of doing this on a large scalable one …And of course, results can’t be that spectacular because it's just a little thing. You're not swimming out in the ocean. You're just dipping in the hotel pool. And that's just not the real thing.” Looking to a future world, in 10 to 15 years, that may be shaped by self-driving, Daniel lays out a compelling example of why the system would require a public blockchain, relying on large scalable micro-transactions, rather than a private, permission-based one. “Imagine in just the city of London, if all cars were moving in sync using AIs. How do you do all these micro-transactions? How do they communicate with each other? If there's going to be a master database sitting here somewhere in the city, I mean, that's a recipe for disaster. The database goes down. Hackers can penetrate it. So then probably it will be a large, scalable, microtransaction-enabled blockchain required. And this is probably where, of course, BSV comes in. But to get there, that is a big step because you need to convince the car makers, the road toll, the government, the city of London, responsible for the traffic lights. The ecosystem needs to be complete and to build that; that's a very bold vision.”So how do we get there and what do corporates need to see when it comes to choosing a blockchain? Daniel points to solid regulations and legalities “and then they want to see how big the ecosystem is. I think this is also very important, and that's something where BSV has to grow …They want to know there's a steward of the protocol or there's mechanism built or there's companies like nChain where I can go in and find qualified people that can help m
At CoinGeek London 2020, EHR Data Inc. announced that they are building a global healthcare database on Bitcoin SV, in partnership with nChain. The plan entails digitising medical data, making it accessible to all relevant healthcare providers, and giving patients ownership of their healthcare data for the first time. Bitstocks Relationship Managers, Antonio Shillingford and James Coughlan tuck into the topic, declaring EHR Data’s groundbreaking mission a testament to Bitcoin SV’s capabilities. Using the current Coronavirus pandemic as an example, the pair illustrate the benefits of transitioning the healthcare industry from siloed information to a shared data approach. Reference material: https://coingeek.com/ehr-data-to-migrate-41-years-of-healthcare-data-to-bitcoin-sv/
Über Bitcoin coder and CTO at nChain, Steve Shadders talks to Bitstocks CEO-Founder, Michael Hudson about Bitcoin’s history, and creating an immutable chronicle with the help of Bitcoin. As one of the team leaders behind the Bitcoin SV development team, Steve runs us through their extensive preparations for the Bitcoin SV’s Genesis upgrade and reveals the name of the final Bitcoin SV hard fork... “I’m more excited about the fact that I don’t know what Bitcoin (BSV) will look like in 3 years just because the possibility is boundless.”
Blockchain marketplace, Opporty is the latest kid on the Block to be charged by the SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) for offering a fraudulent ICO. “We know that Bitcoin SV operates in a regulatory-compliant setting. The coming days will prove the wisdom of this modus operandi,” conclude Bitstocks Relationship Managers, Antonio Shillingford and James Coughlan. As we’re approaching Bitcoin SV’s Genesis upgrade, Antonio and James relate the project’s impressive development work. One of the notable highlights is the Bitcoin SV testnet’s successful propagation of a 1GB+, 5,5 Million transaction block! “The massive block proves the Bitcoin technologies being developed by nChain and the Bitcoin SV Node team can serve all tiers of the global economy.” ------------------------- Like what you see? Hit the subscribe button and click the bell for instant notifications of new posts! Find Bitstocks online: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitstocks/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bitstockslondon Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitstocks_ DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/bitstocksblog Website: https://www.bitstocks.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zphMtWOn4r8Nv6vhw9LC8 iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/bitstocks-podcast/id1439810872
In the first episode of a new series of CoinGeek Conversations, Daniel Connolly, Lead Developer for Bitcoin SV at the London blockchain research and development company nChain, talks about the forthcoming hard fork in the BSV blockchain known as Genesis. Daniel explains what it means for miners, businesses and individuals and about the new opportunities he sees it offering for the BSV ecosystem.
It’s been quite a year for Bitcoin SV - its first full year since its emergence in the split from Bitcoin Cash in November 2018. Since then, developers have been busy creating new apps for BSV and nChain has been working on restoring the protocol to its original ‘Satoshi vision’. As the Bitcoin which is truest to Satoshi Nakamoto’s ideas as outlined in the White Paper, BSV’s big blocks are designed to easily and cheaply accommodate the huge numbers of transactions that will be required to fulfil the vision of a global electronic cash - and much more than that too.Many of the leading thinkers in the BSV ecosystem have been guests on the CoinGeek Conversations podcast over the year. In a special festive edition, Charles Miller invited Chloe Tartan and Jack Davies, researchers at nChain, the London Bitcoin SV and blockchain development company to look back and reflect on a year of achievements for the BSV ecosystem. Chloe and Jack picked some clips from the podcast and discussed the issues raised. Here are some of their comments. If you’d like to see the full episodes from which the clips are taken, they’re still available, both as audio podcasts and videos - just click the links below:Jack Liu: Just by living, you’re going to be making Bitcoin transactionsChloe: “With the internet of things booming and artificial intelligence, technology is becoming so integrated into our lives.” Jack: “I think [Jack Liu] is definitely right in saying that a big part of Bitcoin is the fusing of money and data. There’s going to be a whole range of new use cases for different kinds of data.” Stephan Nilsson: BSV can fix the world’s supply chainsJack: “There are so many different blockchains and things that claim to be blockchains, competing as projects for new use cases and applications ...We’re still trying to educate even developers on what the best way to use blockchain is.”Lorien Gamaroff: How Bitcoin can help fix things in AfricaChloe: “I absolutely love what Centbee are doing in South Africa. Blockchain for me stands for financial inclusion and that’s something that they’re tapping into - the whole concept of ‘banking the unbanked’ is so exciting and so powerful.”Lise Li: Why Bitcoin SV will succeed in ChinaJack: “We released some documentation [about the Metanet] earlier this year, and then within a few months, there’s multiple applications coming out of China from people using it. The rate of building in China is quite impressive.”Matt Dickson: BSV is the logical choice for gamingChloe: “Some of the work we’ve been doing at nChain has been in generating randomness in a provably fair way, and ensuring that it’s a transparent game. By doing that on the blockchain, which is the unified source of truth, we can apply that to any game.”Craig Wright: Bitcoin is not a cryptocurrencyJack: “One of the main realisations I had this year listening to Craig was that it’s not necessarily that decentralisation causes the bigger properties of Bitcoin and blockchain; decentralisation is an outcome of how the blockchain works.”
Connor Murray has spent hours thinking and talking about Bitcoin as the co-host of the podcast Bitcoin and Beyond, and before that too. But now he’s turning theory into practice, as he launches his own Bitcoin SV enterprise, TrueReviews.io, which he hopes will become a kind of BSV-powered TripAdvisor. It was hailed as one of the standout projects at the Bitcoin Association’s Pitch Day at the CoinGeek Conference in Seoul. TrueReviews describes itself as “an online review platform that enables businesses to incentivize more reviews for their businesses and for users to earn Bitcoin and tokenized rewards for good reviews.” In other words, it turns today’s ‘free’ review sites into a real economy, with incentives and accountability for reviewers, readers and those being reviewed. Connor says he got the idea when he was on holiday with his mother-in-law, who enjoys posting reviews on TripAdvisor. She’s “a great person” who writes positive reviews, but most people, Connor believes, only write unsolicited reviews when they’ve got a complaint. To get a more representative range of genuine responses, a new system is needed: if “they’re spending time on this - they should get paid for it.”“In Bitcoin we talk about ‘how do we tie value to data?’ Well, that’s just what we’re hoping to do with reviews.” So if the reviewers are going to get paid, where is that money coming from? Connor says the businesses that are getting reviewed will pay. That will be better than businesses creating fake positive reviews, which is “very common” today, Connor says. The reviews will be demonstrably more trustworthy by including details such as, in a restaurant, the time of the visit or what was ordered, all uploaded to the blockchain to prove that this wasn’t a fake review.Connor sees TrueReviews as a new kind of service, valuable in its own right whether or not its users are interested in BSV: “I don’t want to build a Bitcoin app. I want to build an app that enables you to do something you couldn’t do before without Bitcoin.”In his capacity as a podcast host, Connor has had several interviews with Craig Wright, the Chief Scientist of nChain and, as Satoshi Nakamoto, the originator of Bitcoin. He says that Craig “gets a very bad rap from people who have never even tried to communicate with him”. But Connor says Craig is a great teacher: “he wants you to learn - and that’s what’s very misunderstood about him ...I’ve never found someone more willing to go out of their way to help you understand something. But he doesn’t do it in an ‘hand-heldy’ way: it’s a very Socratic method which is very frustrating sometimes, because he will say things that you don’t think are relevant or he’ll ask you questions where you don’t even know what he’s getting at.”But Craig’s insights into economic systems through the design of Bitcoin are “profound”, Connor says: Bitcoin is “a system that disincentivizes attacking it through economic means ...And that means we can build incredibly complex systems that have security rooted in economics”.
Google’s patent library confirms that Craig Wright’s nChain has just been granted the patent for Blockchain-enforced Smart Contracts. While nChain has a total of 826 filed patents, 1,450 in the pipeline and around 200 granted, this one might just be an Ethereum-killer… Bitstocks’ Relationship Managers, Antonio Shillingford and James Coughlan give you the lay of the land and discuss the domino effect that the enforcement of this patent’s rights might have on the Ethereum network. Next on the agenda, the pair announce Bitcoin SV’s latest triumph: a 2.7 million transaction block, successfully mined on the BSV test network. Watch to find out what the figure has to do with the Visa payment network. ------------------------------ Find Bitstocks online:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitstocks/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bitstockslondonTwitter: https://twitter.com/bitstocks_DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/bitstocksblogWebsite: https://www.bitstocks.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zphMtWOn4r8Nv6vhw9LC8iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/bitstocks-podcast/id1439810872
Brendan Lee is gathering together the collective wisdom around Bitcoin SV (BSV) and making it digestible for developers - both for newbies and for the battle-hardened. “I wanted to take my knowledge of Bitcoin and get it out to as many people as possible,” he says. BSV is still less than a year old, since its fork from Bitcoin Cash, so it’s surprising how much there is to learn and to impart. But at the CambrianSV Bootcamp in Bali recently, Brendan, the new Training and Development Manager for the Bitcoin Association, demonstrated the fruits of his studies in a series of well-received seminars for the 30 or so developers who were attending. He’s also taken on a second new job, as Head of Technology for Faiā, a management consultancy that works with companies who may be taking an interest in the potential of Bitcoin for the first time. For complete newcomers, Brendan admits there are often some prejudices to overcome. The “civil war” in Bitcoin is “very hard to explain to people”. But “as soon as you start talking about an honest money system, that’s transparent, where transactions are instant and extremely cheap ...people actually hear that and they go ‘wow, I want to learn more’.”One example of a consultancy project that makes use of Bitcoin is the development of a system to allow the automatic payment of royalties to an artist by an end consumer - making use of Bitcoin’s ability to pay out to multiple parties from a single transaction: “the fan pays the artist directly”.In his work for the Bitcoin Association, Brendan says that what’s being built today still needs to achieve “feature parity” with existing applications on the Internet. “But once we get to the point that they do achieve feature parity, and start executing features that are in addition to what’s already available, we will see a moment where people start sitting up and listening” because they’ll have learnt that “if you use this application on Bitcoin, you can earn money really quickly”.Brendan admits that there isn’t yet a defined body of knowledge around BitcoinSV. In preparing his sessions for the Bali Bootcamp, he’s been “scouring the Internet” and talking to researchers at nChain to make sure that “my ideas and understanding of things is correct”. The result of the work will be a series of educational resources that the Bitcoin Association will release “so that people who are new to Bitcoin can come in and learn about these concepts - a lot of which are extremely important to understand if you are looking to build an application that works on top of Bitcoin”. But Brendan is making no claims to be the final authority on the matters he’s teaching: “I’m working this out as I go along, and I have learnt so much in the process of putting these lectures together. What I’m really hoping for is that at some point someone comes to me and says ‘hey, I was thinking about what you said but here’s an even better way to do it’. That to me says that I’ve hit the right notes, I’ve got the creative juices flowing.”
As a newly-appointed executive for the Bitcoin Association, Jerry Chan is confident in the prospects for BitcoinSV. The former Morgan Stanley and SBI executive has followed Bitcoin through its many incarnations from the early days and says he’s simply guided by the technology. Whilst Jerry is a strong supporter of BitcoinSV (BSV) - which is promoted by his new employer - he insists that he’s very “anti-cultism”, in the sense that he just wants to “support the technology that works”. Now the Bitcoin Association manager for Japan and South Korea, Jerry predicts that the technology behind many of BSV’s rivals will fail. Whilst the use of Bitcoin for financial speculation has been“the first use case”, Jerry sees the future as very much the merging of the “bit” (data) with the “coin”. “It’s a hybrid - it’s literally a merging of data and value,” he says.“Bitcoin brings value to the Internet, it brings value to data.”The strategy for BitcoinSV should be to make sure that the network scales - which nChain is busy with - but to be “completely agnostic” as to its uses. On the question of private blockchains, Jerry is relaxed about their use by big businesses who only deal with a limited number of outside partners. But he believes that in time, those private blockchains will be absorbed into public chains: “there is room for some private blockchains in those cases, but I believe that if you look even one step further ...eventually, you’re going to need one public one to glue them all together”. “The ownership of data is one of the things that plagues the Internet age,” he says. And data laws need to be clarified. But blockchain solves many of the problems because “the owner of the data is the only one with the keys”. So worries about the responsibilities of cloud companies are largely eliminated: instead,“the liability is on yourself”. You could say ‘you have only yourself to blame’. To that end, wallet security needs to be looked at, with new ways for individuals to look after their crypto keys. In the near future, Jerry hopes to see a big tech company like Amazon or Google start to use Bitcoin. By eliminating data centres, they could operate more efficiently - doing away with expensive infrastructure. Instead, data would be saved on the secure and “almost free” blockchain. That would be a “really, really powerful” change for business. It would add up to “a revolutionising of the Internet monetization model”. Instead of the advertising model, users would be rewarded for sharing their data. “Ecommerce is just going to get better. People are not going to have to deal with advertisements; people are just going to sell their data directly.”
An Australian Bitcoin developer living in London, Steve Shadders is, at first glance, the typical geek, complete with goatee beard, glasses and ponytail. But it only takes a few minutes chat to get way beyond the stereotype. He thinks widely about the politics and economics of bitcoin, and he’s a former DJ, with a love of techno - a calling which he says delayed his entry into the world of software by several years.“Shadders” as he’s known at nChain, the Bitcoin SV development company of which he’s Chief Technology Officer, operates in many dimensions. There’s an ideological side to him, the legacy of youthful, anarchistic attitudes: “as Bitcoin becomes more widespread,” he says, “it puts the power of economic sovereignty into the hands of people who currently don’t have it ...There is nothing more powerful that you can give someone than opportunity.”The mission of nChain, according to its website is “to ignite global adoption and enterprise level of usage of Bitcoin”. To that end, Steve leads the nChain developer team behind a series of “upgrades” to the Bitcoin SV protocol (he prefers “upgrade” to “hard fork”). This year, we’ve had the Quasar upgrade, and next year will be Genesis. The idea is to bring the Bitcoin SV protocol back to how it was when Bitcoin started - hence the “SV”, Satoshi vision. Part of that process is to allow Bitcoin miners rather than developers to call the shots. As a developer, himself, Steve realises this has implications for him: “ultimately, my goal is to make myself replaceable and redundant - and I hope to achieve that within a couple of years”. By then, the governance role in Bitcoin will be handed to a group of people rather than a few individuals, leaving miners with the ultimate responsibility for the ecosystem.Steve works closely with Craig Wright, nChain’s Chief Scientist. He admits that “it can be challenging to understand what Craig’s talking about sometimes”. About six months after Craig has raised a new idea, Steve says modestly, he finally understands “what he really means”. But it’s a privilege “to be able to pick his brains on a daily basis ...he’s thinking about things years before anyone else”. As for his own ideas about where Bitcoin is heading, Steve is an unashamed ‘Bitcoin maximalist’. He does accept that “probably the notion of private blockchains will be around for a while before the business world gets comfortable with the fact that public blockchains actually offer far more benefits than than the perceived benefits of keeping it private.” But in the end, he predicts, it’ll be “one coin to rule them all”. And he doesn’t expect Bitcoin SV’s rivals to be around “in five or ten years”. If BSV develops the way Steve predicts, he’ll go so far as to agree that the work of nChain today might be of interest to future historians. And he points out that “a lot of that work is going to be recorded there immutably, in the blockchain, so it will be easier for blockchain archaeologists to work out what happened”. It’s just another advantage of blockchain technology!
nChain is the London-based research powerhouse behind BitcoinSV. Its mission is to “ignite global adoption and enterprise-level usage of Bitcoin”. To make that happen, nChain has set up a professional services unit to reach out to businesses and encourage them to design and implement blockchain projects, with Osmin Callis as its Business Development Manager. In this podcast, Osmin talks about how she works with businesses, their assumptions about Bitcoin, how she tries to steer them towards nChain's solutions and the benefits she sees for the world economy in the long term from the widespread adoption of Bitcoin and blockchain solutions.
*** this is not financial or legal advice*** Bitcoin SV is the “original” Bitcoin. It restores the original Bitcoin protocol, will keep it stable, and allow it to massively scale. Bitcoin SV will maintain the vision set out by Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper in 2008: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world's leading Bitcoin advocates, supporting Bitcoin SV [BSV] as the original design, protocol and vision of Bitcoin's founder Satoshi Nakamoto. Jimmy was formerly CEO of nChain Group, the worldwide leader in advisory, research and development of blockchain technologies, and now is Chair of its Strategic Advisory Board. nChain's Chief Scientist is Dr. Craig Wright, one of the earliest and most visionary minds working in Bitcoin. Jimmy is also Founding President of the Bitcoin Association, the worldwide industry organization for the business of Bitcoin. The association backs Bitcoin SV, and brings together developers, merchants, exchanges, miners and other Bitcoin network participants. Jimmy heads the industry group as it builds the global infrastructure and ecosystem for Bitcoin SV. Show Links: CRYPTO101podcast.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=8429526 Twitter: twitter.com/Crypto101Pod twitter.com/BrycePaul101 twitter.com/PizzaMind www.instagram.com/crypto_101 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101Crypto/ https://www.facebook.com/CRYPTO101Podcast/ **THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL OR LEGAL ADVICE** © Copyright 2019 Boardwalk Flock, LLC All Rights Reserved Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oILGUkxmTR8 Keddie by Loxbeats https://soundcloud.com/loxbeats Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/oILGUkxmTR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv0OSpS2ABU Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-of... Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gv0OSpS2ABUAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
*** this is not financial or legal advice*** Bitcoin SV is the “original” Bitcoin. It restores the original Bitcoin protocol, will keep it stable, and allow it to massively scale. Bitcoin SV will maintain the vision set out by Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper in 2008: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s leading Bitcoin advocates, supporting Bitcoin SV [BSV] as the original design, protocol and vision of Bitcoin’s founder Satoshi Nakamoto. Jimmy was formerly CEO of nChain Group, the worldwide leader in advisory, research and development of blockchain technologies, and now is Chair of its Strategic Advisory Board. nChain’s Chief Scientist is Dr. Craig Wright, one of the earliest and most visionary minds working in Bitcoin. Jimmy is also Founding President of the Bitcoin Association, the worldwide industry organization for the business of Bitcoin. The association backs Bitcoin SV, and brings together developers, merchants, exchanges, miners and other Bitcoin network participants. Jimmy heads the industry group as it builds the global infrastructure and ecosystem for Bitcoin SV. Show Links: CRYPTO101podcast.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=8429526 Twitter: twitter.com/Crypto101Pod twitter.com/BrycePaul101 twitter.com/PizzaMind www.instagram.com/crypto_101 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101Crypto/ https://www.facebook.com/CRYPTO101Podcast/ **THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL OR LEGAL ADVICE** © Copyright 2019 Boardwalk Flock, LLC All Rights Reserved Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oILGUkxmTR8 Keddie by Loxbeats https://soundcloud.com/loxbeats Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/oILGUkxmTR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv0OSpS2ABU Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-of... Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gv0OSpS2ABU
At London's Blockchain Expo, 16,000 people exhibited, networked or just gawped at stands promoting businesses that were too complicated or obscure to get their heads round. In this podcast Charles Miller tries to make sense of it all with the help of Osmin Callis from nChain, Richard Kastelein from Blockchain News and Sergio Rigert from Gingr - a Swiss startup that's putting prostitution on the blockchain.
Patents in the cryptocurrency space seem to garner a negative view, which is not entirely fair. It's not blockchain technology itself that is being patented, but rather applications built on top of it. And leading the race by far, is nChain, with an announcement that they reached the 666 mark on 7 March 2019. Find us online: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/bitstockstv Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitstocks/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bitstockslondon Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitstocks_ DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/bitstocksblog Website: https://www.bitstocks.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zphMtWOn4r8Nv6vhw9LC8 iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/bitstocks-podcast/id143981087
Mark Allison has been a freelance IT consultant for 20 years, specialising in data. He works for investment banks, retailers, insurance companies, hedge funds and payment processors. Many of the people he deals with are sceptical about Bitcoin - and have been more so since the crash in its value last year. But Mark is optimistic about Bitcoin’s prospects and has been following the sector closely. Now he’s spending his evenings and weekends building products for Bitcoin SV (BSV). “I see huge potential”, he says. Bitcoin could allow governments and banks to be more transparent. “If we do move over to Bitcoin as a currency ...I think everyone’s going to be better off.” He understands the scepticism among his City and IT colleagues: “because BTC [Bitcoin Core] has these limits in place, it couldn’t scale, so people who did go out and buy Bitcoin and try to use it, were like, ‘well, it’s not actually very good, is it?’.” With transaction fees rising to around $50, its prospects for being used as a global cash seemed “ridiculous”. But Mark says the limits on transactions and high fees were artificial and the appearance of Bitcoin SV (BSV) has given him even more hope because it returns to the ideas of the original Bitcoin White Paper, of which Mark is a huge fan: “When you consider Bitcoin as a whole, I see it like a Michelangelo painting: it’s a thing of beauty. If you look at the economics behind it, all the incentives behind it - how the miners are incentivised - if you look at the computer science breakthrough that happened to solve the Byzantine Generals problem, if you look at the game theory behind it, if you look at the law: all of these elements all come together in one package, and it’s just a beautiful thing.”The developers at nChain are removing many of the limits imposed on BTC, and then “Bitcoin can really realise its potential”. It will make business more efficient by reducing their costs. All it will take it one large business to start using it. Dr Craig Wright, Jimmy Nguyen and others have spoken of the need to achieve massive scaling on the BSV network - and Mark agrees: “we need to scale now”. With the mining block subsidy being halved again next year in line with how Bitcoin was set up, eventually “if there’s not significant volume, then the miners are going to leave - so we’ve got this ticking time bomb”. The answer to that problem is BSV, Mark says. It’s not only a stable platform in terms of the protocol, but nChain is committed to scaling. “If we don’t scale, it’s going to fail,” Mark says. “We need to see consistent large blocks though real world usage”, for instance for data that needs to be immutably stored with proof of existence. To help things along, Mark has been making his own applications for BSV. The first is a Chrome extension for the Handcash wallet. To make it, Mark had to teach himself Javascript, among other things, over two or three weekends. After about a month, he says, he “managed to cobble something together that kind of worked”. You can try the Handcash Handle Converter for yourself: it converts a Handcash handle into a Bitcoin address. Or, thanks to fellow developer Derek Moore, who made use of Mark’s open source project, you can get the same functions on a website, handcash.to.Mark’s second project is an analytics database, SVCharts, which produces Bitcoin trends, such as mining fees: “ultimately what I want to have is a self-service analytics platform.” The project includes an interesting monetisation model using MoneyButton.
Dr. Craig Wright is the chief scientist at nChain and is believed by many to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the original inventor of bitcoin. That means he is either a computer science genius or a marketing genius. In either case, I thought it would be wise to acquaint ourselves with him and his ideas. We spoke about Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, nChain - and although he isn't an anarchist, we may have even found a bit of common ground regarding central banking.
Dr Craig Wright is the Chief Scientist of nChain and the main creator of Bitcoin, he says, as the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. In a wide-ranging interview, Wright takes the chance to correct a few myths about Bitcoin’s origins and purpose. First, he says that Bitcoin is not a cryptocurrency: “cryptography is secret writing. Bitcoin is the exact opposite of that. Bitcoin is basically a public ledger”. Wright makes a distinction between Bitcoin and ecash systems which use technology to “cryptographically hide something”. Instead, Bitcoin is a “chain of evidence” that is “pretty much everything that those other systems that aim for anonymous transfer are not”.What’s more, Wright doesn’t even accept that Bitcoin is a currency since that implies a level of official acceptance - “something that’s used by the state”. In time, Bitcoin will be currency, he says. But first, he predicts the release of “tokenized fiat” by states, which will “use the capabilities of Bitcoin to print their own money on top of it”. Thirdly, Bitcoin is not about “democratizing finance”. You can’t do that with Bitcoin, he says. The only kind of decentralizing that works will be achieved by sticking to a stable protocol: “you pull the developers from ever making a change”. In that sense, it’s about taking away the power of developers. Developers “are the cancer in Bitcoin”. Two more corrections to conventional wisdom: Wright is sceptical about the potential future threat to crypto systems from quantum computing. “to create something that could attack Bitcoin in the mythical quantum computer world” would require an unrealistic area of quantum computer space: “it’s fud, it’s snake oil ...none of it will ever affect Bitcoin.” Finally, on the widespread criticism of mining as a profligate user of electricity, Wright says Google uses “thousands of times more”, as do Visa and Mastercard. “People who want to attack the system make things up”. Alongside Bitcoin as money is the use of the blockchain to store non-financial data. Wright is developing the blockchain-based Metanet, which he says that has the potential to threaten the ubiquity of the Internet and the dominance of the tech giants: “it changes everything in giving people control of their own lives. Rather than having people like Twitter or Facebook owning everything you’re doing, it now allows you to start creating your own space”. The bargain that users currently make with the tech giants, to sell their data in return for the services offered, is one in which users don’t really have a choice, Wright says: with the Internet so important in our lives, to decide not to use the big tech services would be “like saying ‘don’t use electricity’...You have to use it for work etc.”But there is an opportunity for the Metanet because “the [online] model for advertisements is incredibly inefficient”. It leads to clickfraud, which the tech companies have to spend money fighting. He believes users would be prepared to make micropayments for search results rather than being stuck with the ad model in which they are selling they data. In time, he says you might only have to pay a thousandth of a cent for a set of search results.He is currently writing openly about being Satoshi because, he says, “unfortunately I’ve got a whole lot of greedy con men who all want money”. As for the choice of Satoshi as a name, he says that it’s “a bit silly” but it’s the Japanese for ash. The idea, which he originally saw in The Economist magazine, is that new money will rise from the ashes. As for Nakamoto, that’s the name of a Japanese 18th Century philosopher. He doesn’t see any value in the figure of Nakamoto remaining enigmatically anonymous: “the myth
Jimmy talks Bitcoin SV and its future and is the hash war finally over?
Jimmy has been heavily in the crypto and blockchain space since 2016 and has been a big part in building the nChain group. He has now recently shifted his focus to Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision. I dig deep into what went on in the hash wars and why he thinks Bitcoin SV is the future of bitcoin. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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On this edition of the Crypto.IQ Daily Radio Show we do a deep dive market analysis. Bitcoin (BTC) has finally broken through the $4,000 resistance level, and now all eyes are on the $4,200 long term resistance level. Tezos (XTZ) has rallied 19 percent following Coinbase’s announcement that they are launching an institutional staking service, and Tezos (XTZ) is the first Proof of Stake (PoS) cryptocurrency to be offered by this service. Bitmain’s Jihan Wu is beating the war drum by saying that ASICs will likely be created for the supposedly ASIC resistant algorithms ProgPoW and Cuckoo Cycle. Jihan Wu also discussed how Ethereum (ETH) is wrong for trying to ban ASICs, and argues that ASICs are a decentralizing force. Also, Bitmain is aiming to release 7 nm chips by the end of the year, in time for the May 2020 block halving. We discuss how Craig Wright and his firm nChain are trying to get as much blockchain patents as possible, and are hiring a lawyer to defend their patents.
In a wide-ranging conversation, Jimmy Nguyen, President of the Bitcoin Association and and Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board for nChain, discusses Bitcoin SV, nChain's business model - including the role of the many hundreds of patent applications it has filed - and the how things work between the "unlikely trio" of senior figures behind Bitcoin SV - himself, Calvin Ayre and Craig Wright. Finally, Jimmy gives his view on the endlessly fascinating question of Craig Wright being Satoshi Nakamoto.
In this candid podcast, hosted by Bitstocks CEO, Michael Hudson, Jimmy Nguyen of nChain and the Founding President of The Bitcoin Association, discusses life as a BitcoinSV evangelist, joining nChain, his view of Dr Craig Wright and makes an exciting CoinGeek announcement. As one of 4 children of Vietnamese emigrants to the United States, Jimmy details his first-hand experience of the personal and financial struggles as a result of geopolitical issues, and how Bitcoin can serve as a hedge for those in countries with floundering fiat currencies and governments. Michael and Jimmy also discuss the misinformation and differences between private, anonymous and pseudonymous blockchains, touching on the importance and impact of these in the bigger picture of transparency and 'sight' of financial transactions. The pair go on to chat about the fundamental design of Bitcoin as a biologically inspired network, highlighting how Dr Craig Wright chooses to share cryptic information in presentations and let people do their own research, in order to learn. Speaking of Dr Craig Wright, Jimmy details how he came to work for nChain and establish a trusted relationship with the 'controversial' man so widely misunderstood. In a slight turn to the technicals, Michael and Jimmy, share their excitement about the Bitcoin SV developments chatting through the OP returns and run through the utility of Bitcoin SV now that bigger block sizes are at play. Before wrapping up with a thought-provoking view on blockchain related patents held by nChain, Jimmy and Michael discuss the regulatory and legislative landscape, as well as government influence on blockchain technology adoption and as a mechanism for enhanced economic performance. For more information about the upcoming CoinGeek Conference in Toronto, Canada, visit https://coingeek.com/conferences/toronto-conference/ Read more - and sign up to - the Bitcoin Association at https://bitcoinassociation.net/ Find us online: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitstocks/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bitstockslondon Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitstocks_ DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/bitstocksblog Website: https://www.bitstocks.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zphMtWOn4r8Nv6vhw9LC8 iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/bitstocks-podcast/id1439810872
各位链团财经的读者朋友们，大家早上好。欢迎收听链团财经早间资讯。今天是2019年2月4日星期一，农历戊戌年十二月三十。今天是除夕，链团财经祝您新春愉快，财源滚滚。首先让我们聚焦今日财经： 美国多位政党人士看好加密货币领域并进行过投资英国公共交通服务商提供基于区块链的代币激励计划四川将引进区块链应用研究中心规范区块链技术应用领域和方向中国企业在海外发布并行区块链网络赵长鹏回复网友：亚马逊迟早会发行一种（加密）货币支付处理服务商Anypay现可接受BCH支付海南省副省长范华平：将在区块链等方面超前谋划，打造智慧警务V神：以太坊计划在2019年开始动手削减能源浪费赛门铁克CEO：区块链技术可用于证明新闻内容真实性金融壹账通贾燕菁：利用区块链技术助力贸易融资与中小企业融资服务今日财经就到这里，下面我们来聊一聊关于区块链的那些事儿： 据搜狐科技消息，近日，IPRdaily联合incoPat创新指数研究中心发布“2018年全球区块链发明专利排行榜（TOP20）”，数据范围为截止2018年1月1日至2018年12月31日，全球公开的区块链技术发明专利申请数量。入围前二十名企业中，中国占据15席。入榜前十名企业前十分别是nChain（230）、阿里巴巴（206）、IBM（133）、MasterCard（107）、中国联通（106）、元征科技（104）、中国平安（84）、腾讯（81）、奇虎360（64）和复杂美（62）。以上就是今天链团财经早间资讯的全部内容，感谢您的关注与支持，祝您新年愉快，我们明天再见。
各位链团财经的读者朋友们，大家早上好。欢迎收听链团财经早间资讯。今天是2019年2月4日星期一，农历戊戌年十二月三十。今天是除夕，链团财经祝您新春愉快，财源滚滚。首先让我们聚焦今日财经： 美国多位政党人士看好加密货币领域并进行过投资英国公共交通服务商提供基于区块链的代币激励计划四川将引进区块链应用研究中心规范区块链技术应用领域和方向中国企业在海外发布并行区块链网络赵长鹏回复网友：亚马逊迟早会发行一种（加密）货币支付处理服务商Anypay现可接受BCH支付海南省副省长范华平：将在区块链等方面超前谋划，打造智慧警务V神：以太坊计划在2019年开始动手削减能源浪费赛门铁克CEO：区块链技术可用于证明新闻内容真实性金融壹账通贾燕菁：利用区块链技术助力贸易融资与中小企业融资服务今日财经就到这里，下面我们来聊一聊关于区块链的那些事儿： 据搜狐科技消息，近日，IPRdaily联合incoPat创新指数研究中心发布“2018年全球区块链发明专利排行榜（TOP20）”，数据范围为截止2018年1月1日至2018年12月31日，全球公开的区块链技术发明专利申请数量。入围前二十名企业中，中国占据15席。入榜前十名企业前十分别是nChain（230）、阿里巴巴（206）、IBM（133）、MasterCard（107）、中国联通（106）、元征科技（104）、中国平安（84）、腾讯（81）、奇虎360（64）和复杂美（62）。以上就是今天链团财经早间资讯的全部内容，感谢您的关注与支持，祝您新年愉快，我们明天再见。
Dr Craig Wright, Chief Scientist for nChain and one of the most public proponents of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) sits down with Bitstocks founder and CEO, Michael Hudson, to have a philosophically technical discussion about the mathematics and biological models behind the Bitcoin protocol and how this impacts on the organic growth and scaling of the network.
There's HUGE dissent within Bitcoin Cash at the moment. On one side is Craig Wright of nChain. He has patented some blockchain tech and is fighting with Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin Unlimited to not have this tech included in the open source code, because he wants to make money from it. He says he's just trying preserve the original bitcoin and prevent unnecessary changes. I chat to Chris Pacia, Lead developer for Open Bazaar, about everything that you need to know about the Bitcoin Cash dissent and upcoming Fork scheduled for November. If you liked this, please subscribe to my YouTube Channel! YouTube.com/NaomiBrockwellTV If you would like to support my podcast on Patreon, please visit: Patreon.com/NaomiBrockwell For any links mentioned in this podcast, please visit NaomiBrockwell.tv
Debating Wright Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 234. This is a debate on IP between me and a noted Bitcoin expert, Craig Wright, hosted and moderated by the Vin Armani show. Transcript below. After the debate I was in London to attend the inaugural 2018 meeting of Mises UK and to hang with my boys Lee Iglody, Jeff Barr, Doug French, and Hans Hoppe, and had challenged Wright to a debate during a few twitter run-ins (still on-going); I accepted and since I happened to be in London, Wright set it up and we did it at a local studio, with Armani moderating from Vegas. Further comments appear on my Facebook post and also on the Youtube post (below). Update [7/17/19]: I had my buddies Jeff Barr and Doug French in the room watching, and after the debate, invited Craig to drinks in the hotel bar. We had an interesting, if a bit bizarre and intense, discussion for an hour or so. But in the ensuing weeks, things between us devolved on Twitter. Wright had promised to produce "proof" of patents stimulating innovation during the debate, and apparently, like with many of his promises to produce something, never came through. I pointed that out on Twitter and he eventually ended up blocking me, as well as the podcast's host, Vin Armani, who at the time was, with Wright, a fellow BCH advocate (Vin is still a BCHer but Craig has split off again with his BSV). Of course, in the meantime, Wright has amped up his risible claims to be Satoshi and has been involved in a number of controversial issues in the bitcoin/crypto community. What a character. Also: during the debate I referred to him as Dr. Wright, since he claims to have several PhDs, but now I am not sure he has any legitimate PhDs, other perhaps than one in "theology", so I should not have called him "Dr." That was too deferential. On the other hand, he did pay for the venue and related costs, so I was being polite. Youtube (with captions): https://youtu.be/5ckcdnD9lFw Original Youtube (which contains a large number of comments; see below): ❧ TRANSCRIPT Intellectual Property Debate: Stephan Kinsella vs. Craig Wright Stephan Kinsella, Craig Wright, and Vin Armani Vin Armani Show, London and Las Vegas, Jan. 27, 2018 00:00:00 VIN ARMANI: Welcome everyone to today's debate. We are debating intellectual property. The two opponents are Stephan Kinsella and Craig Wright. Stephan Kinsella is an attorney in Houston, director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom and editor of Libertarian Papers. He is one of the foremost libertarian experts on intellectual property. 00:00:23 And Dr. Craig Wright is an inventor, computer scientist, and businessman who is one of the earliest minds behind Bitcoin. He's the chief scientist at nChain research and development company involved in Bitcoin and blockchain technologies. So today what we are going to be debating is the following resolution resolved. Intellectual property law is a legitimate and useful institution that belongs in the emerging global sphere of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. 00:00:54 Craig Wright will be arguing for the resolution, and Stephan Kinsella will be arguing against. This debate is going to consist of a series of five-minute statements and rebuttals, a series of rounds. The first round is going to be an opening statement from each of the debaters. We are going to start with – did we say we're starting with Craig Wright? So we will start with Craig Wright who is arguing for the resolution. Dr. Wright, if you will. 00:01:26 CRAIG WRIGHT: Thank you. So basically what we're looking at is the idea that intellectual property has no value from other people. Now, I would argue it does, not because of the common constraints and whatever else people put about scarcity and what they think about copying but for a number of reasons first as the scarcity of good ideas. There are many ideas out there in the world,
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