In another thread about Bitcoin and Chess I received the following post:
Sorry to post this here, but this is the only active thread I know about chess and Bitcoin. I used to read and reference many others to
royalforkblog.com. It was an excellent blog about Bitcoin. You can find an archived snapshot here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150214051116/http://www.royalforkblog.com/Does anyone know who ran this blog and why it is no longer online? It went down probably 2 month ago.
I am the type of learner that profits from the beautiful style. e.g. check out this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150216123331/http://www.royalforkblog.com/2014/08/11/graphical-address-generatorI even had e-mail contact with the guy once but it was all through the royalforkblog address.
excerpt from the about section:
It’s rather poetic. We have the king; the most important piece in the game which must be protected at all costs; and the queen; a piece stronger than the next 2 most powerful pieces combined. In the above position, the almighty king and dominant queen both find themselves unescapably ensnared by a single, lowly, well positioned knight. The royal fork reminds us that it doesn’t take an army to push around 2 towering, seemingly unassailable pieces…..just an idea and stellar execution.
I think this serves as a decent metaphor for bitcoin. Like the knight, Bitcoin has positioned itself squarely between 2 giant institutions; the State, which regulates the monetary system, and the federal banking system, which runs the monetary system. Unlike the chess analogy, I don’t think the relationship between Bitcoin, States, and banks is or should ever be adversarial. Chess has clear winners and losers; the real world can accommodate success for everyone.
The most royal post so far was this one but a it is unfortunately not preserved with all elements:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150216055120/http://www.royalforkblog.com/2014/09/04/ecc/Sorry for interrupting the chess game. In case you know anything, please pm me.
Interesting blog. I did 60 seconds of research and found these which I assume are related:
https://github.com/royalfork?tab=repositories (google image search of his face only leads back to github)
https://twitter.com/royalforkblogHere is one more chess thread in case you want to ask there:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1190988.0It is worth noting that one of the 52 accounts
https://twitter.com/royalforkblog follows is
https://twitter.com/hashbreaker who is someone important to those that follow CryptoNote
Good luck!
Yesterday I found the Github repository myself. I cloned it, gave it a different name and used GitHub pages to display it.
Epic falure however:
http://simonbelmond.github.io/royalfork_copy/Update 20.10.2015: Meanwile I have managed to bring the content back online guerrilla style here:
http://royalforkblog.github.ioStill no news about the owner or this whereabouts, however.
I am not a webmaster and I am not sure what goes wrong. Maybe the java script interpretation is wrong.
Also received this mail from GitHubSo if anyone has an idea how to fix it, please help me out.