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March 22, 2019, 03:03:21 PM
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Good Dispute here

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Crads getting on the table

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What you posted concerns bitcoincash BCH not BSV.

Understand this from 2018-2019:

https://ibb.co/0XPdS1N

To sum up "it appears" that Bitcoin cash (BTC absolutely too maybe) belongs to Asia! The funds come from CiC visibly (sovereign investment fund) and return to the state coffers after all this journey. This is what we must remember from the graph and may be demonstrated, if it happens, it will not be without consequences.

Mr Roger Ver, Mr Sterlin Lujan, Mr Sechet, Mr Chancellor, Mr Cox and the "BTC-BCH partisans" are clearly "maybe" being fooled (hoodwinked), as long as they have shit in their eyes, they won't realize the depth of the fuck received up until the Nanites. It would be desirable for him to join BSV if they want to support what "Bitcoin BSV is created for, the very essence of what will happen", this decision belongs to him. BCH, BTC, without Satoshi Vision has been a waste of time.


Remember that Blockchain tip: When the lie takes the elevator, the truth takes the stairs, it takes longer to get there but it always happens in the end.

I suggest strongly to support BSV Bitcoin Satoshi Vision not BCH, BTC and others vulnerable clone blockchain..... Communicate on your networks and share BSV Vision would be a good start to introduce your world.


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What you posted concerns bitcoincash BCH not BSV.

Understand this from 2018-2019:

https://ibb.co/0XPdS1N

To sum up "it appears" that Bitcoin cash (BTC absolutely too maybe) belongs to Asia! The funds come from CiC visibly (sovereign investment fund) and return to the state coffers after all this journey. This is what we must remember from the graph and may be demonstrated, if it happens, it will not be without consequences.

Mr Roger Ver, Mr Sterlin Lujan, Mr Sechet, Mr Chancellor, Mr Cox and the "BTC-BCH partisans" are clearly "maybe" being fooled (hoodwinked), as long as they have shit in their eyes, they won't realize the depth of the fuck received up until the Nanites. It would be desirable for him to join BSV if they want to support what "Bitcoin BSV is created for, the very essence of what will happen", this decision belongs to him. BCH, BTC, without Satoshi Vision has been a waste of time.


Remember that Blockchain tip: When the lie takes the elevator, the truth takes the stairs, it takes longer to get there but it always happens in the end.

I suggest strongly to support BSV Bitcoin Satoshi Vision not BCH, BTC and others vulnerable clone blockchain..... Communicate on your networks and share BSV Vision would be a good start to introduce your world.




This is  a result of ABC who tried (and enforced)  to split the old BCH chain and community but wanted to keep the ticker BCH and forced to move clean and true Bitcoin impl into BSV.

Bitcoin (as defined by the Satoshi White Paper) is not bound to any ticker - so that's a good lessen anyway.



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March 26, 2019, 10:53:17 PM
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This is pathetic, I have witnessed first-hand the countless attacks on twitter crypto community against Craig Wright. People are crazy, it's a shame to see their childish behaviour and total lack of respect. Read Craig Wright's work, the 3/4 of half of these morons parasitic will never understand anything, the other half are bots, but for the others they will move on. I read here the term idocracy seems to correspond to the climate. Instead of being supportive and advancing the research, the guys are out there sucking their dick on the networks and eating their own  shit. Unity is strength and assholes divide it!

People who are criticizing Dr Craig are idiots and don't know what they are saying. Or they are bots! Nobody in their right mind would say anything bad about the founder of the real Satoshi's Vision coin, the true bitcoin. All this trolling can't have anything to do with our great founder claiming to be Satoshi but failing to prove it by moving coins or signing  genesis addresses. It also can't have anything to do with BSV losing value all the time.
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Many people judge the person but not his ideas, what he makes his strength is undoubtedly his convictions, i like Craig vibes:

Here is an extract from his interesting medium https://medium.com/@craig_10243/the-myth-of-forks-be04f8e5fe4a


The myth of forks

From Craig Wright (Bitcoin SV is the original Bitcoin.)

When I removed myself from public view towards the end of 2010 and 2011, it was as I was rather disillusioned. Bitcoin was designed as a system that allowed for sound private money and would make criminal uses less viable. Between Wikileaks, Anonymous, and a number of dark websites including but not limited to Silk Road, I saw Bitcoin being used in a number of ways that disheartened me.


I had said that I had believed that Bitcoin would be attractive to those with a libertarian point of view, but many who jumped on to Bitcoin are far from libertarian. I’ve detailed the difference between anarchy and libertarian thought many times, and it is Marxist communism that seeks to expunge the state. Bitcoin was never designed to be anti bank or anti government. It is about a sound system that produces an evidence trail and incentivises good behaviour.

In The Sociology of Money (N. Dodd, Cambridge, 1994, xxii-xxviii), the author demonstrates how when the marketability of a good is directly observable by its potential recipients, the more likely it is to evolve as a medium of exchange. It requires a pseudonymous system — not an anonymous one. The people involved need to gain trust in the system through the ability to validate a chain of their own money. That does not mean, as many say, they need to run a node, but rather that they can validate the source of their funds and ensure that it has been paid in a manner that meets expectations.

I utterly failed to comprehend how many so-called anarchists and socialists would run around calling themselves libertarian or capitalist. Much of what I hear being described is not related to the concept of money in the Austrian economic school at all. Most of it comes from authors such as Simmel and his concept of perfect money (see Simmel, G. (2004) The Philosophy of Money. London: Routledge.). Such socialist-inspired and sociological-based flawed concepts of money seem to have propagated throughout what is the SegWit or CoreCoin (BTC) community.

It seems that few in the more anarchist aspects of the community care for or want to understand the law of property in money. The principles of value inform the rules governing tracing, and set the foundation for the law of property of money. The exercise of tracing is a process where the value inherent in one asset is associated with the value in a second asset that is being exchanged for the consideration (see Foskett v McKeown [2001] 1 AC 102, 127 per Lord Millet).

The law of tracing is important to Bitcoin. Many of the issues associated with eCash derived directly from the inability to trace blinded eCash. In Law of Tracing (L.D. Smith, Oxford, 1997), the requirements for money to be traced under law are thoroughly investigated.

We live in a society with law and government. In fact, without law and government, we would not live in society not have society. All of the systems that allow people to run Bitcoin are created because a contractual and legal framework exists that allows for the creation of complex computer systems, global networks, and widespread exchange. In removing law, we remove the systems needed to create complex entities that can allow corporations such as Cisco, Intel, and even Microsoft to exist. Without it, the necessary frameworks allowing Bitcoin to operate are non-existent.

The utopian fallacies of money and society have been propagated for millennia; in The Laws (5.743 d), Plato wrote:

Our society, we pronounce, must have neither gold nor silver, nor yet much making of profits from mechanical crafts, or usury, or raising of sordid beasts, but only such as husbandry yields or permits, and of it only so much as will not force a man in his profit gathering to forget the ends for which possessions exist, that is to say, soul and body. (1961, p 1,328)
The described fallacy is propagated and exponentially expounded through the errors in the understanding of economics promoted by a community I sadly used to be a part of. Abolishing money or making Bitcoin universal will not become the end of all fraud, thefts, crimes of passion, fear, tension, anxiety, and long working hours.


Aquinas promoted the principle of “just pricing,” Ruskin as an advocate of a form of labour money, and the fixed wage, argued in Unto This Last that “the price of everything is to be calculated finally in labour” (1862, p 215). Ruskin unfortunately and extremely adversely affected Gandhi with his Fabian socialist utopian lies leading to the millions of deaths that resulted from the policies of a Utopia that could never exist.

Such then is the myth that seems to propagate in “crypto.” The idea that money alone will abolish the state and create freedom. Not vigilance, not evident work, but rather a utopian ideal as we see with neo-Fabian authors such as Simmel (2004, P 346):

The complete heartlessness of money is reflected in our social culture, which is itself determined by money. Perhaps the power of the socialist ideal is partly a reaction to this. For by declaring war upon this monetary system, socialism seeks to abolish the individual’s isolation in relation to the group as embodied in the form of the purposive association, and at the same time it appeals to all the innermost and enthusiastic sympathies for the group that may lie dormant in the individual.
Such thinking has led to the failure to understand Bitcoin, and the drive to alter it to something it can’t be. Bitcoin is not anonymous, nor should it be. It does not need to be more private outside of the dreams of criminals and anarchists. And it scales, as I originally envisioned, through corporate competition. The system is an ultra small-world graph, and it requires large network connections and the desire of companies seeking profit.

Orphans are a part of the protocol
As nice as Hal Finney was and as much as he was needed at the start of the project, he was absolutely terrible for me. I stopped working at the end of December 2008, and dedicated most of my time to doing research and Bitcoin. In effect, I put about everything I had into it. Heart and soul and, more importantly, money. I’d taken a golden handshake when I left BDO, and I had a massive set of loans taken out on the three properties I owned at the time. One of them was my farm. At the time, my property, which was a combination of a farm, cattle ranch, and orchard, was my sanity and the thing that enabled me to have some downtime.

It was over a decade of my life where I had invested in the orchard and many improvements, and it even planted a small timber crop.

To continue paying the bills in the early days of Bitcoin, I had to end up selling it. By the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to maintain it — the loan repayments and to keep going without getting another job. There wasn’t an option for venture capital back then. On top of it, I ended up paying over $1 million fighting a tax audit that I would end up winning. After going to the tribunal, I ended up getting more than I had originally claimed, and the tax office tried claiming that I had recklessly underclaimed.

Funny enough, if I’d moved the intellectual property into Australia at the time, I would have been paying much more tax now. So I do have to thank the government for saving me from my own mistakes. I spent my weekends listening to audiobooks and studying as I walked about my farm back then.

Getting to the point where I knew that I had to sell the property in itself was a blow.

What was worse was listening to Hal when he explained over and over how Bitcoin wouldn’t work. He was a far better coder than I was, and had been involved in the industry much longer. I believed in my idea, but always thought that he was focused on a different goal.

Hal was similar to people such as Wei who sought a completely different system. They looked at building systems without government and without corporations. When I talk about libertarian values, I had never once thought of the anarchist side of it. In fact, it is a socialist means of attacking capitalism, and I never considered that people who call themselves libertarians would be so deluded.

Then I should have, I was involved with all of such people in the 90s.

I always saw how things would end up in data centres. It is part of the design. Bitcoin is about competitive corporations securing the network. It is not decentralisation for the sake of it, nor is it the creation of a system that removes all government and corporations. Such a utopian perspective, as I have discussed earlier in this article, is rather delusional.

I still miss my farm.

It may be that I could buy it back now or even have another one here in England, but I know it might not be the case for many many years. To complete what I started, it is going to require many hundreds of plus-hour weeks.

Hal kept talking about second-layer systems. I never really equated the push that we still see now to try and make a democratised system of nodes distributed throughout the globe as I knew it was about a small-world network. I didn’t realise that Hal was seeking more nodes and not more edges.

I should have explained it far better, but then I also think that if I’d done so at the beginning, people such as Hal would not have been there. I don’t think Bitcoin is what he wanted.

A part of the problem was that there was no value in bitcoin back then. The security model of Bitcoin is economic, and the cost of running a node was something that I understood and that I think many people did. Nodes are miners, and such is how they make money. There is no such thing as a validating node. Validation is done through the creation of blocks.

I saw the network fragmenting and people starting to create sidechains and alternatives that took power away from Bitcoin. The problem here is that the security model of Bitcoin is an all-or-nothing zero-sum game.

What people fail to understand is that Bitcoin is designed as a commercial system.

True, when it first came out, it was an Alpha product, and the code standard was limited. I am not the coding God that people make me out to be, and there was a lot of work in getting it where it had to be just to launch. More, it didn’t even work at first. Bear and Hal acted freely, and gave a lot of advice, and basically fixed a lot of the shit that I had left. I act on a high level these days — Steve and the team wouldn’t let me near live code again, and I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. It’s the curse of being a generalist rather than a specialist.

Nodes need orphans. There is nothing to solve here.

Orphans are an economic signalling technique in Bitcoin. One of the reasons the block cap was put in place is that I did not have a clue on how we could have a floating limit work at the time. The problem was that the solutions all required monetary value.

Even orphaning blocks (as a signalling method) requires value to be of use. If you’re merely losing a reward of 50 bitcoin when bitcoin is not even worth a fraction of a cent, the incentives do not exist to think about the network, the connectivity of your node, or any of the other aspects of Bitcoin that people seem to ignore. This is the point; Bitcoin mining is not about finding a block, it is about ensuring that all other mining nodes know that you have found a block and that it is valid.

Once the network is large, there is an incentive for nodes to watch the validation times and propagation rates of blocks across the network. Once this occurs, they can start monitoring the time of discovery versus the time of propagation for blocks and then set limits on what they will produce versus what they will build on.

A block limit should be an economic function. More importantly, it is more about the inclusion of any transaction that you can take with any amount of fees. Where a miner starts to see orphans occur, they know that in losing the blocks they are losing rewards.

Bitcoin was designed with a two-week limit on difficulty for this reason.

Every 2016 blocks, Bitcoin was designed to reset its difficulty such that the system maintained itself in a fluctuating zero-sum game. It is a multi-leader Stackelberg game. But more importantly, the block reward is a zero-sum game meaning that orphans are not included in the two-week total. For the total supply, the two-week average creation rate will stay at 2016 block subsidies. If there are 1 million orphans, there will still be 2016 blocks discovered. Yes, I am exaggerating there a little, but the point is that extra blocks skew the reward towards better connected networks. Not home systems, but large well connected data farms that act to ensure that they are incredibly well connected.

The way it works is that if you have three nodes (yes, I know that such is not the case, nor shall it be) for our toy model of Bitcoin and each has equal hash power, then the better connected node wins more blocks. Imagine two of the three nodes have 10 times the bandwidth of the other. What will occur is that more transactions will be able to be taken and processed by the two miners than by the third on the more limited network. A part of the problem here stems from the block subsidy. People using it as the value of bitcoin and not as an incentive to build the network as it was intended.

We will assume that a 1GB block can be propagated from the first two nodes without too much problem and that it takes a large amount of time which effectively reduces the comparative hash rate of the third node. If we take block propagation of the 1GB block to take one minute on average (which is excessive but designed to make my point) for the two faster nodes, then each will lose 10% the hash rate equally. That is, some will gain a benefit and some will lose but at equal rate. Conversely, our slow node will lose around 65–70% of its effective hash rate.

Instead of an expected daily return of 48 blocks, the slow node will now expect to earn from a mere reap of 16 blocks with the other faster nodes each getting paid from additional 16 blocks in total reward. This is a significant differential, and will lead to a scenario where the slow system either goes bankrupt or updates its network. If it was to update its network, the equivalent hash rate between the systems would again equalise. Conversely, if the system went bankrupt, we would expect other players to come into the market due to the large increased profit margins of the remaining players.

On the other hand, if the two nodes can only handle blocks up to 100MB, the node creating 1GB blocks will end up losing an effective 50% of its hash power. This means that it would expect to earn only 24 of the 48 blocks that it is finding each day. The fast node will benefit by slowing down a little, maybe to 300 MB. Doing so will still give it an advantage and yet stop the losses from having the main impact.

Most importantly, as the block subsidies start to disappear, more and more of the profit-earning capability of a node will need to be derived from transactions. To do so, a node will want to build more and more transactions into a block. The issue now becomes one of paid versus unpaid transactions and of a rate per transaction.

There is no need to create an artificial fee market.

The socialist fools of Core who are running SegWitCoin (BTC) don’t understand that markets don’t need their help. They seem to believe that they need to be the socialist planner saving the Utopia that they wish to create. It is the irony of them calling themselves libertarian.

Orphans are the signaling method that allows organizations to control the rate of discovery and the rate of loss in a manner that lets them know when they need to upgrade their network and also to control the fee level that they will take. There should always be a certain number of free transactions in every block. Fees should be driven to a point that is as low as possible, and through capitalist competition should be driven so low that inefficient nodes are bankrupted and removed.

Subsidising home users remove the security of Bitcoin, and allow it to be easily attacked. Bitcoin becomes secure because a large number of competing organisations fight for the right to take your transaction.

There is nothing to fix in orphans. They are a critical part of the design of Bitcoin.

On failure
Bitcoin didn’t fail, but other parts of my life did. I used to own horses. When I sold my property, I had to sell them too. A horse that I had had for a decade, a mean grumpy thing like me. I had to give him away. It broke my heart.

Say what you want, that it was only an animal, but I interacted with them more than I did with many people. Outside of Dave and my property, I had a very isolated life. At one point, I was doing four post-graduate degrees simultaneously, and I was working. The period includes my master’s degree in law and a master’s degree in statistics. I needed such information to complete Bitcoin, but at the same time, it left me isolated. I had work, my farm, and one really good friend — Dave.

Dave started getting sick in 2011, and I knew that I had to give up my farm.

I did isolated forensic jobs, and did work for a number of casinos and sports betting sites such as Centerbet to try and keep some money coming in, but the first thing I needed to do was actually prove that Bitcoin worked.

It was the nature of what I did with Panopticrypt between 2011 and 2013. Nothing that I could commercialise and make money out of, just rule research so I would know that I hadn’t wasted my life completely.

I spent millions testing alternatives. I needed to be certain I was correct. That the system worked as a commercial solution and also that something like a home-user version (as the BTC Core group, Hal, and many others want and wanted) was not valid. Or, at least that if it was, it would not end as a crime coin. I worked to create a mainstream system, and making an anonymous coin would have simply ended me.

I worked out how systems such as Monero, Zcash, and for that matter any anonymous blockchain could be infiltrated and stopped.

They needed to work with a large number of organizations and some quite unsavory characters to do so. I’m not talking about the honest licensed gaming companies and other types that used Liberty Reserve. This was a part of the problem. Dave had been storing all the money we used in accounts attached to Liberty Reserve. It’s not as much of a problem for me as it was for him because gambling laws in the US preclude sports betting in any form whereas it is legal in Australia.

Dave and I worked with law enforcement and others for a long time. Dave took opiates, because his condition left him in constant pain. But more importantly, contacts of his told him about the impending takedown of Liberty Reserve eight weeks before it occurred. He was left with the problem of knowing that if he moved his funds, it would be tracked. Effectively, to do so would have ended his career.

Rock, hard place.

Frying pan, fire.

If David had talked to me about his problems with money, I would have helped. When it comes to work, I’m rather excessive and focused. My wife will tell you so, I hyperfocus, and the world moves around me, and I do what needs to be done. It is how we have gotten to completing over a thousand white papers and how I had 20 academic papers accepted for publication in the last two months. I can’t say it’s good, it takes a toll in anyone’s life, but you could say I’m driven.

Towards the end of 2010, many people sought to start making alternative systems, sidechains, and more. What people will start to realise is that Bitcoin only works as a single solitary chain. It will never be more than it is now, and eventually people will give up, and it will collapse unless it is one. I looked at proposals from people looking to do alternative blockchains, and tried to come up with solutions that allowed alternative chains to exist without splitting CPU power.

Where we are with the Metanet now has come about following another decade of research. I did not have a clue about how to do it until last year. What you’ve seen is the equivalent of the Internet circa 1991. We have a lot more coming, it is just not public quite yet. What people are seeing as development in BSV is nothing compared to what is about be released.

I wanted to bring my inventions back into Australia, but I also needed to do so without shooting myself in the head. I wanted to remain as secret as I could and also repatriate funds to Australia. I was still doing a lot of contract work with government, and even acted as a prosecution expert, and conducted judge prosecutor training.

I had spoken at many conferences where even in 2010 I had started trying to teach people in government and law enforcement about the benefits of Bitcoin, how it mitigated the problems of most forms of money today and allowed them to actually trace money better than they had ever dreamed when it came to crime.

Then Wikileaks, then dark websites…

Everything I built Bitcoin to be seemed to be falling apart at that stage.

I wanted to have a means to be open with government, but could not find one. I spent a year studying distributed botnets, not just the common knowledge — I had gone about as deep as you could expect anyone anywhere to go, and then some. In many ways, botnet territories mirror mining nodes within Bitcoin. I had actually based some of the design on learnings following work I’d been involved with concerning fast flux networks and distributed command-and-control servers.

There is nothing to fix in orphans. They are a critical part of the design of Bitcoin.

I always believed that if Bitcoin would eventually scale enough for my ideas to have a chance to succeed, nothing could stop it. I was also afraid that it wouldn’t make it to the stage it needed to reach to continue to grow. If I had been able to at the time, I would have patented everything to do with Bitcoin. Unfortunately, there was no way possible that I could see that would have allowed me to do so. Satoshi, the issuer of a monetary system, can be close to anonymous, though even then I wasn’t, but you cannot file an intellectual-property claim using a pseudonym.

So it was a choice at the time.

More importantly, it was also of monetary reason. Filing patents globally is incredibly expensive. My guess is that each patent is costing us between $25K and $70K, and right now we are approaching a total of 700 that have been processed. You can do the maths.

Likely, nobody really understood what the hell we were trying to talk about. SPV is something I’ve been arguing about for years now and everyone’s ignored. Likely they have because I was trying to spark someone into understanding it, but they haven’t understood it, which means we’ve been able to file patents on how it is actually achieved. It’ll be out later in the year.

It is going to be painful for someone to discover how simple it really is, and more importantly, it is absolutely critical for the scaling of the network. Other people’s loss.

When I wrote that Bitcoin was set in stone, I was referring to a protocol that can do about everything and will result in massive damage to the network when split. More importantly, the concept of splitting a digital currency is really scammy. There are no splits, there is a demerger process when all nodes agree, and where they don’t, there is the original protocol.

The creation of a protocol change is the creation of a completely new cryptocurrency.

You can airdrop all you like, except it is covered under existing law. Bitcoin remains the original currency that was formed in 2009, and the new currency is created alongside it. There is no democratic voting within money.


Gold was valuable when it was used as a global form of exchange. It was not valuable because gold was different in different countries nor because different governments exchanged at different rates, it was valuable as it allowed a universal measurement of value. Even when individual governments debased the currency, gold was valuable as it allowed measurement of the debasement. And that’s important; looking across global trade and global exchange, we want a system of value that can report on debasements and allow us to see the value of our money in any location as it is spent in the location. To do so, we need a stable base currency.

Miners can choose to reject blocks such as of those that have more transactions than they’re willing to build upon. They can choose to risk being orphaned and to orphan others. It is a part of how Bitcoin works. What is not a part of the system is the addition of new opcodes and the radical changing and alteration of the signature system such as with the removal of signatures in SegWit.

All of the divisive and socialist bull about money is at the heart of the attack on miners, but then, with the push towards proof of stake (aka proof of illegal security), we see that most of such myths are nothing but an attempt to create a system that allows for illegal bucket shops, criminal activity, and more importantly, pyramid and Ponzi schemes designed to allow one to facilitate the creation of ICOs which are merely a new form of stealing money. Rather, I should say they are an old form of stealing money with a new label, for none of it is new, and USENET scams existed way way back.

There are no forks
To put it simply, there are no forks in Bitcoin. The radical alteration of the base protocol by BTC in 2017 was not an alteration to Bitcoin. It was the creation of a completely new system that simply copied the existing coin holders and ledger and modified the system.

Bitcoin is not a consensus system based on democratic voting.

Bitcoin does not democratize shareholding. Shares have been de-materialised for a long time. Electronic trading is nothing new. Being able to create shares outside of a registered body is an old fraud, and it has been going on since the 1960s.

There are absolutely no benefits to society in having many blockchains. First, there are no such things as special-purpose blockchains in the same way that there is no such thing as a special-purpose Internet. You have a general-purpose system that does everything, or you have nothing of value. More importantly, the system security is incredibly low unless it congeals into a single unit and stays that way.

Bitcoin can be used for tokens. It is nothing new.

When you have an equity or share that is created across multiple ledgers, you no longer have a ledger with any value. If you split and make a copy of a blockchain, then you have the original share held on the ledger, and you have a sham copy of the same on another one. As an example, if we have bitcoin with tokenised gold issued and someone creates a new copy of a blockchain using the original bitcoin ledger, then we do not gain any further gold. You also cannot now distribute the same gold between two sets of blockchains.

The entire creation of the concept of splits is simply a form of fooling those who have no idea about Bitcoin into believing that you can change the protocol and still have a monetary system that works.

They are attempting simply to take the network effect of Bitcoin and steal it into their experiment. Luckily, we have enough capital now to be able to patent my ideas. Bitcoin, every blockchain that could possibly ever compete with it, and every other distributed ledger technology compete, and only one will win. None of that phases me because I’m about two decades ahead of the market, I’m very happy to be here, and I don’t really care if you wish to ignore me because you don’t cost me money.

There is value in being able to withhold information. Information is a commodity. This is the core of the heart of Bitcoin. I have information of value and others wanted. Information is property, and I choose how I distribute my property.

One of the worst things within the cryptocurrency space is the community. The toxic rabble that you like to call crypto as a community scares off business and adoption. Do I want followers? No. Do I need followers? No.

I have more intellectual property patented than any bank, any large vendor, and in fact more than even China combined. Very simply, we hit the filing of just under 700 this month, and that alone is only the ones that you will see for now. Unlike most organisations, we hide the publication of our patents as long as possible. It still gives us the priority date, and ensures that no one catches on to what we are doing before it is too late — and we will have moved on to the next 20 projects.

With just under 1200 white papers that in time will lead to around 10,000 global patent filings, I really don’t give a shit whether you like what I’m doing. But you are going to have to pay attention whether you like it or not.

The mis-focused attempt to abolish banking and modern finance through Proudhon and turn it into crypto anarchism in the seeking of equality through the abolition of monetary systems with the concept that “Money hides itself — we must dispense with it;” “Let all merchandise become current money, and abolish the royalty of gold” (Proudhon, 1927: 46) is a canker on the ass of society. What is even worse is the neo-utopian revitalisation of the flawed ideas of More (1516) with the mislaid attempt to radically transform money in a false belief that a redesign of the price system will somehow by itself improve economic conditions and global equality.

It is not technically feasible to accomplish what is conceptually correct, namely to transform the money function into a pure token money, and to detach it completely from every substantial value that limits the quantity of money, even though the actual money suggests that this will be the final outcome. (Simmel, 2004, p165)
Bitcoin doesn’t create equality, no blockchain does. The existence of a sound commodity money based on principles of supply and demand does not mean you become richer, and it does not mean that local currencies alter in form. It does mean that they compete, and it requires far more than simply having Bitcoin as a HODL platform, in other words a pyramid scheme or Ponzi.

Bitcoin is a system of work. In proof of work, it is fairly much a Protestant work ethic digitised and exchanged online.

What Bitcoin adds is efficiency. It does not democratize shareholding, and nor should it. Like it or not, people can issue shares in companies, and governments can control them however they want. Regulations are designed to protect investors. The interesting thing is that investors seek capital that is better protected. There is a premium placed on investing on the New York Stock Exchange over the Delaware exchange. The reason is simple: investor’s confidence.

With global corporations, a company in California can seek to raise money through the issue of shares on a stock market in Panama today. With de-materialisation, the electronic trading and payment are quick and simple. For the consumer, existing broker systems are actually more attractive than any digital token right now. It is not the consumer that is seeking the technology.

One party to the problem is the capital raiser seeking to gain a benefit without going through the necessary consumer protections. Right now, there are many ways of raising money from sophisticated investors. Such is the real issue with ICOs and the fraud propagated in selling them as democratising finance. They are democratising nothing; they are doing the same scams that we saw with pink sheets and USENET tokens over the previous decades ending in the last century.

All of them are seeking to raise money based on the token itself. They are not selling the benefits of the company, rather they are seeking to create a pyramid scheme where they sell the concept of a token that will naturally increase in price because everyone wants it. A monetised and marketed greater fool scheme. The worst of them are scams such as Ripple and XRP that offer nothing new to the market, but sell a false promise of a blockchain implementation without a blockchain.

The promise of Bitcoin and blockchain is linked to the immutable ledger. It comes when there is one set of books. If an organisation can have multiple sets of books, they can easily commit fraud. If they have multiple blockchains, they can easily commit fraud. As soon as you can start moving between Bitcoin and some sidechain or alternate chain, you have the ability to construct elaborate schemes such as those run by Bernie Madoff and Enron. With Bitcoin, vigilance is still necessary, but it is possible to construct a fully auditable system that allows for a single immutable record stream making fraud more difficult. Not impossible, but more difficult.

References:
Dodd, N. (1994): The Sociology of Money. Cambridge: Polity.
More, T. (1516): Utopia.
Plato (1961): The Collected Dialogues of Plato, ed. E. Hamilton and H. Cairns. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Proudhon, J.-F. (1927): Proudhon’s Solution of the Social Problem. New York: Vanguard Press.
Ruskin, J. (1862): Unto This Last (Cornhill Magazine).
Simmel, G. (2004): The Philosophy of Money. London: Routledge.
Smith, L.D. (1997): The Law of Tracing. Oxford.



New financial service for the BitcoinSV ecosystem.

Now you can use BitcoinSV as collateral to get anonymous instant loans in Bitcoin, Ether or Stable Coins (TetherUSD, TrueUSD and USDC).

This service provides a lot of opportunites of BitcoinSV holders in terms of future contracts, management of portfolio, etc.




I remember that the Asian market had been ejected before the generalized ATH in November 20017 and especially there were not even 20 exchanges at the time referenced on CMC let alone the 2200 cryptos as currently on the market... very easy to get BTC off the ground at 19000€ under these conditions. Then came the flooding of crypto shitcoin in extra numbers created under Ethereum and then the 98% Token ICOs are actually inactive projects and are clearly scams. The next generation of shitcoin creation is over-multipled thanks to eos, eth, rvn, neo etc.... Now all these crypto are potentially "illegal" in violation of Craig Wright's patents it is the bitcoin with Satoshi's Vision (and Metanet to come) that is not considered as crypto currency at the base led by Nchain Holding and one of its founders Dr. Craig Wright specialist in economic law and judicial informatics.... This is the guy who is criticized because he claims to be the founder of bitcoin btc and has indicated that he will prove it in due course, that said, his ideas are not criticized and his shared knowledge is immense here is an overview: https://medium.com/@craig_10243
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276 petahash / second (PH/s) will be added to the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision BSV network via a company 100% owned by Mr Ayre for BSV.

Source: https://coingeek.com/squire-announces-definitive-agreement-for-first-step-of-coingeek-blockchain-cloud-computing-transaction/

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This is pathetic, I have witnessed first-hand the countless attacks on twitter crypto community against Craig Wright. People are crazy, it's a shame to see their childish behaviour and total lack of respect. Read Craig Wright's work, the 3/4 of half of these morons parasitic will never understand anything, the other half are bots, but for the others they will move on. I read here the term idocracy seems to correspond to the climate. Instead of being supportive and advancing the research, the guys are out there sucking their dick on the networks and eating their own  shit. Unity is strength and assholes divide it!

People who are criticizing Dr Craig are idiots and don't know what they are saying. Or they are bots! Nobody in their right mind would say anything bad about the founder of the real Satoshi's Vision coin, the true bitcoin. All this trolling can't have anything to do with our great founder claiming to be Satoshi but failing to prove it by moving coins or signing  genesis addresses. It also can't have anything to do with BSV losing value all the time.

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The Bitcoin Vision: Episode 14
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Bitcoin SV mines first ever 128MB block, proving Satoshi’s Vision !

The Bitcoin SV (BSV) has targeted scaling massively, with the faith that if you provide the world an unlimited block size, developers and users will find a way to create new possibilities. This faith is already confirmed, as the BSV blockchain has now mined its biggest block yet: 128MB.

The momentous occasion came at 12:36 a.m. UTC On March 30, when a 128MB block was confirmed by nChain’s BMG mining pool. The block held 1,440 transactions, and could very well be the record for a while, as it’s the current block cap for the BSV blockchain.

This beat the previous record, set less than an hour earlier, of 124MB. That block was also mined by nChain’s BMG mining pool.

These aren’t isolated incidents either; BSV has seen its block size growing pretty consistently. It hit new records on March 27 with two blocks over 50MB. It then smashed those records with a 113MB block on March 28.

This is once again confirmation that BSV has vindicated Satoshi’s original vision of massive scaling. By giving the world more possibilities, businesses and users have met the challenge and used increased block sizes to their full potential.

Important figures in the Bitcoin world have celebrated this momentous occasion on Twitter. Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy Nguyen commented “We now live in the era of 128MB blocks.”

Since the block cap has been reached, the next step will be to scale even more. The Bitcoin Association has previously stated the goal is to scale to 1GB in the near future, and it looks like that bigger block size will come in handy as the Bitcoin community continues to find new ways to fill those blocks.

There can be little doubt that they will, either. It’s only been a few months since Bitcoin was reborn as Bitcoin SV, and since it started down its path of unlimited scaling, protocol stability, and professionalization, so many businesses and applications have developed and found adoption. Exchanges have come on board, wallets have signed up, and new payment options have adopted BSV. And that’s just talking about the ways BSV can be used as the world’s new money.

Let’s not forget the new ways BSV has unleashed the blockchain as the world’s data network. With the increase of OP_RETURN, apps like Bitstagram and Bitpaste are now possible. Looking to a future where BSV is the place we turn to for data, we also now have Bottle, the BSV blockchain browser, a dedicated way to pull up files saved to the blockchain.

There’s no better time to celebrate the achievements of the BSV blockchain. If you’re looking to mark the occasion, why not check out the upcoming CoinGeek Toronto conference. Like Calvin Ayre noted, this scaling conference will have the top minds of the BSV world, and will celebrate the scaling achievements we’ve already seen. If you want to be a part of it register to attend, and show your appreciation of BSV and save a few bucks by using BitcoinSV via Coingate.

News sourcing from https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-sv-mines-first-ever-128mb-block-proving-satoshis-vision/





Bitcoin direction in explanation video By Founding President of the Bitcoin Association and nChain’s Jimmy Nguyen

For the first episode of The Bitcoin Vision, Founding President of the Bitcoin Association and nChain’s Jimmy Nguyen, comes to you from Seoul, South Korea, one of the hotbeds of cryptocurrency and blockchain in the world. Seoul is the perfect place to talk about Bitcoin SV (BSV)—the rebirth of the original Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Vision: Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwDeFaINI_A

Founding President of the Bitcoin Association and nChain's Jimmy Nguyen provides updates on Bitcoin Satoshi Vision scaling test results, OP_RETURN, no limits on data size, and Dr. Craig Wright's vision on putting IP on blockchain. With Bitcoin SV being the only coin staying true to the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper, it is fitting that we bring the updates from Yokohama City, Japan.  The Bitcoin Vision: Episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUGCGhfhh40

Be bringing updates on the results of the latest Bitcoin SV Scaling Test Network (STN), giant OP_RETURN data sizes, whatsonchain.com, Cryptofights, and Metanet from Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is the host of Pause Fest 2019, the world's leading creativity-infused business event.  The Bitcoin Vision: Episode 3 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJ77Ebez3k

Brings updates on the rebranding of the Bitcoin Association, Bitcoin SV V0.1.1 release, Wallet Workshop, EDI to BDI, and the latest installment of 'The Wright Vision. The Bitcoin Vision: Episode 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfg6rQaHn0s

Episode brings us new updates in the ecosystem as BSV finally unleashes the true power of Bitcoin's original design, protocol and Satoshi Vision The Bitcoin Vision: Episode 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smcKo62UFiA

Bitcoin SV ecosystem which include the scaling developments from the Bitcoin SV Node team, Bitgraph, Python BSV Wallet SDK, Dev. Documentation Series, and the new Wright Vision from nChain Chief Scientist Dr. Craig Wright.  The Bitcoin Vision: Episode 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKSALIY-Rao

Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy Nguyen takes us into his home to give the latest developments in the Bitcoin SV space which includes Easysign, Cryptartica, BSV Information Tools, Metalens, and Play Bitcoin SV.  The Bitcoin Vision: Episode 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrnQDsytTH8


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@jamespastagueule and @human8ty bumps less than 24 hours are not allowed. If you have the last reply on the topic, then instead of making a new post edit the last post and include any updates over there.
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Once again, it's pathetic talk place? Bitcointalk's legendary censorship of BSV again. It is forbidden to inform otherwise you will be blocked  Cheesy sorry @jamespastagueule and @human8ty you are targeted...

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In the case of a payment system using the Bitcoin SV, will the fees for transactions always be low and will they be treated according to the number of bytes per transaction?

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In the case of a payment system using the Bitcoin SV, will the fees for transactions always be low and will they be treated according to the number of bytes per transaction?

Peer-to-peer digital electronic cash Bitcoin is not a cryptocurrency.

Too many people get it wrong. As the white paper explains, Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. In the white paper, it is written, “costs and payment uncertainties can be avoided in person by using physical currency, but no mechanism exists to make payments over a communications channel without a trusted party.”


There is a reason for it; Bitcoin is an electronic cash system, not a ‘crypto’ system, and not a currency in any form. I will start detailing the part concerning currency.

What is currency?
Black’s Law Dictionary defines currency as:

Coined money and such bank-notes or other paper money as are authorized by law aud do in fact circulate from hand to hand as the medium of exchange.
[Griswold v. Hepburn, 2 Duv. (Ky.) 33; Leonard v. State, 115 Ala. SO, 22 South. 504; Insurance Co. v. Keirou, 27 111. 505; Insurance Co. v. Ivupfer, 2S 111. 332, 81 Am. Dec. 284; Lackey v. Miller, 01 N. O. 20]

Alternatively, other terms such as virtual currency have developed. A virtual currency is defined as:

A digital representation of value that is not available in physical form but which can be used as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, or a store of value. Virtual currency is stored and transacted in electronic form, and therefore does not have legal tender status in any jurisdiction. Virtual currency includes a subset referred to as cryptocurrencies (an example of which is Bitcoin) which are protected by cryptography.
Unfortunately, the errors around what Bitcoin and other things are have propagated, and many people claim that even Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency.

A subset of virtual currency and digital currency that is protected by cryptography and predominantly generated and exchanged through the use of blockchain. While all digital and most virtual currencies are centralized with supply controlled by the developer of the currency, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are decentralized and not created or controlled by a single central entity. Therefore, supply and value of cryptocurrency is determined by demand.
As such, they fail to even define the notion of decentralized. Even the description used is logically flawed. Virtual currencies are defined as being centralized because the supply is controlled by the developer of the currency. They write that cryptocurrencies would be different because they were decentralized and thus not controlled by a single entity or group (such as a small group of developers as with Bitcoin Core or Ethereum).

The same by nature reflects a requirement for a set protocol. If any party can alter the protocol, then it is not by nature decentralized and is controlled by a single (usually not incorporated) entity. Importantly, the Fifth Money Laundering Directive ((EU) 2015/849) (MLD5) has already been updated to incorporate all of the changes, and unfortunately misuses the terms cryptocurrency within the industry.

Article 1(1) of MLD5 extends the “obliged entities” that fall within the scope of MLD4 in a number of ways, by amending Article 2 of MLD4.

Providers engaged in exchange services between virtual currencies and fiat currencies. Fiat currencies are coins and banknotes that are designated as legal tender and electronic money, of a country, accepted as a medium of exchange in the issuing country, such as the euro. The Commission refers to this type of provider as a virtual currency exchange platform (VCEP).
Importantly, the MLD5 already calls for provisions to:

…combat the risks related to the anonymity, national Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) should be able to obtain information allowing them to associate virtual currency addresses to the identity of the owner of virtual currency.
Crypto
The confusion stems from the fact that ECDSA, the digital signature scheme used within Bitcoin, has a similar basis as elliptic-curve cryptography or ECC. In fact, public-private key schemes within both of them are exactly the same and interchangeable. The difference is that bitcoin is a mere signature. It is sent in clear text. Cryptography by definition is secret writing. Bitcoin is not secret. Unfortunately, here lies the confusion that has become part of the core of the system.

Cryptography simply means secret writing. As explained, many of the mathematical functions used within Bitcoin are similar to those used within cryptography, but Bitcoin is not cryptographic.

Digital signatures are based on the same mathematics as public-key cryptography. Here’s where it ends. Based on does not mean is. A digital signature is a tool that provides a means to validate the authenticity and integrity of any data. It does not provide confidentiality — which is encryption.

E-currency
Bitcoin is not a currency or an e-currency at present, but it could be. Importantly, tokenisation methods allow for the creation of a national currency on top of Bitcoin. Such a system would be an e-currency.

It is not a lost cause even now, and we have the capability to securely tokenise currency offerings on top of Bitcoin.

Unfortunately, many many people have not understood the nature of Bitcoin, currency, or how the system functions. The truth of the matter is, Bitcoin is and was at its heart an electronic cash system that works as a peer-to-peer exchange. It is not because nodes act as peers, but rather individuals do. When Alice and Bob exchange consideration using Bitcoin, Alice sends a transaction to Bob that he can send to the network to be settled. The peer-to-peer process here happens between Alice and Bob, and does not involve the network other than settlement. Too many people have got it wrong.

Far too many people fail to understand what I said. At no point have I said that Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a currency in any form, or anything monetary-wise other than digital electronic cash. It is important; there are legislative requirements detailing the handling of currency. The handling of Bitcoin and other electronic systems has now been incorporated into the acts. Having said so, Bitcoin only becomes an e-currency when it is used as a national currency or when it is the basis for any currency that has been built into a script within Bitcoin as a token.

https://medium.com/@craig_10243/peer-to-peer-digital-electronic-cash-369bb306028b



Another very interesting reading on BSV: Why the protocol is set ?

Bitcoin is only decentralised when power is removed from developers and others who can change the protocol. That is the point. The argument about decentralisation is about decentralisation of power.

The only method to maintain decentralisation of power is to set the protocol and lock it. It must be set in stone.

When, as with BTC (SegWit Core) or ETH (Ethereum post DAO), you end up with a few developers who have the ability to alter the protocol, you have the power to impact a large number of people — which is not decentralised as claimed but rather highly controlled.

The same matter of course is what the developers seek to cover and hide. They want power, they want control, and they achieve the same by misleading others into believing that the protocol needs to change.

An example scenario
To discuss the matter, I will explain by example of a scenario what could occur. Let us say that two individuals have a long-term relationship and an investment. As a result, they construct a two-of-two wallet. Alice and Bob must both sign.

We face a fairly standard two-of-two multi-sig address.


Let us propose that both Alice and Bob are through such a method preparing a gift for their grandchildren. Their grandchildren have only been born recently, and Alice and Bob have two grandchildren who are less than one year old. Alice and Bob have decided that they want their grandchildren to have access to money that they were investing for them — but not until their grandchildren turn 25. It is actually a scenario that can be problematic in law. It is an area where parents and grandchildren have decided to attack the concept of common-law trusts and argued that they should be allowed to access their money earlier, and in some jurisdictions, courts have allowed it. There are ways around it that would enable blocking funds until the individuals turn 25, but doing so can be expensive and then difficult to change. Bitcoin solves such an issue.

Let us say that Alice and Bob are in their 80s. They do not know whether they will see their grandchildren turn 25, and even today living to one’s hundreds remains unlikely.

Alice and Bob create a laminated paper wallet for each child. It is stored in a safe deposit box.

Alice and Bob want to ensure that their children cannot pressure them into spending the money if something happens to the other grandparent. They know their children can be manipulative, want access to the funds, and would seek to gain control if anything happened to either Alice or Bob.

Consequently, Alice and Bob deposit an initial amount of 100 bitcoin into the multi-sig address. Alice and Bob decide jointly that they will not spend more than 50 bitcoin of the joint address ever, and promise to leave the rest to their grandchildren.

To ensure the pact, Alice and Bob sign a series of nLockTime transactions. They don’t want their children to know what they are. They also want to lock it so that if something happens, the other cannot be pressured into altering the trust.

Alice and Bob sign a future-dated nLockTime transaction for 50 bitcoin. Alice assigns it to Bob and Bob assigns it to Alice. It is set for six months from now, and every three months, Bob and Alice update the process discarding the original transaction.

Bob and Alice trust each other, so they do not see the process as an issue.

Bob and Alice also sign 25 bitcoin to each grandchild from the untouched 50 bitcoin and 25 bitcoin to each grandchild from the 50 bitcoin that they have an earlier time lock on. The time lock is set to 25 years from now for each grandchild.

Things change…
Six years have passed, and Alice and Bob now have two more grandchildren. They now alter the process to assign 12.5 bitcoin to each grandchild from each of the two lots of 50 bitcoin — which means potentially 25 bitcoin for each grandchild if Bob and Alice do not need to access the other 50 bitcoin. The lock time here is set to expire allowing access to the coins 19 years from the date.

Two years from the same date, with 17 years to go before the grandchildren are old enough, Bob passes away leaving Alice. Alice can no longer alter the pact that she and Bob set up, even if she is pressured by her children to do so. So now, there are four transactions that pay 12.5 bitcoin to each of the grandchildren which cannot be altered and reconfigured, so that each grandchild can only access the funds when they turn 25. As such, two of the transactions are configured to be accessed in 17 years and the other two in about 22 years when the respective children turn 25.

With Bob gone and Alice’s health and wealth on the decline, Alice needs to access some of the funds. She can never draw down on the 50 bitcoin that had been left for the grandchildren no matter what pressure would come. She can gain access in a few months to the coins left by Bob assigned to her. The respective locked transaction becomes valid in three months, and Alice is able to pay for the care she needs. As Bob assigned the transaction to her, she can now sign, too, completing the transaction. It had been signed so that Alice can now move control over 50 bitcoin to her address that is a single-key address she controls.

During the same time, bitcoin has become valuable, and Alice’s greedy children pressure her for access. Bob and Alice were afraid so, and feared that in their old age the pressure from their children might lead them towards giving up control of their money. Alice pays 20 bitcoin to cover the expenses she will need in order to enjoy the rest of life, and leaves 30 in her control.

She signs a time-lock transaction for the 30 bitcoin dividing it up between her grandchildren. Each of them will receive 5 bitcoin when they turn 25. She leaves the other 10 bitcoin to her children, and destroys her private key. She tells her children, who are angry and upset because she has time-locked the payment so that her two children can only access the amount of bitcoin in the locked transaction 10 years from now.

Her children do their best to try and take control of the assets that Alice used to control, but as she has overwritten the keys, they can no longer do so. Similarly, when Alice and Bob’s mothers were both alive, they too set up a custodial-wallet system associated with the children. Each of the time-locked transactions to the children are configured to transfer coins to addresses that the children own, but only when the time block is validly released.

Once the grandchildren turn 18, their parents will no longer be able to pressure anyone into giving the money to them. Alice’s children will have to make do with the comparatively small amount she has left them and let the grandchildren inherit when they turn 25.

Two years pass, and Alice also passes away.

Each of Alice and Bob’s children now have a locked transaction that they cannot access for another eight years.

The four grandchildren are able to recover their bitcoin by spending the locked transaction as they each turn 25.

Custodial services exist in such a world to ensure that no data can be lost. They use an encrypted copy of the locked transaction, and store it on-chain. Nobody can see the transaction unless they know the details to access it, and yet it is perfectly secure.

Unlike on-chain solutions such as CLTV that are public, the nLockTime transaction field allows Alice and Bob to construct a trust that remains secret. They used to be common in countries such as England, and allowed people to plan their estates without having to tell everyone what they own. In other words, they allow privacy.

Unfortunately, the lies that have been propagated by a bunch of people seeking to make a drug coin have led people to not understand Bitcoin’s strengths. Not everything should be on-chain. Importantly, even though Alice and Bob created keys for their children and grandchildren, they maintain the ability to control their own finances and secession without allowing others to see what they wanted to do.

It is what Bitcoin is.
It is the strength and benefit of Bitcoin. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are either ignorant of what Bitcoin is or rather disingenuous.

Here lies the reason why the protocol needs to be fixed and set in stone. If the protocol changes during the described period, then everything Bob and Alice have planned falls apart. Let us say that there is a major protocol change one year after Alice dies. The signature format is altered, and some of the opcodes that Bob and Alice used are now rewritten. The locked transactions are no longer valid. Alice and Bob have passed away, and hence have not been able to sign the transaction so that bitcoin is lost. A bunch of developers have altered the protocol and destroyed their wealth.

To be money, to be a source of contracting and wealth, Bitcoin needs stability.

Developers will tell you that they need to be able to change the protocol. It is a lie. It is a means to grasp power. If the developers can change the protocol, they have the power over the system and can alter everyone’s wealth in the system. They will tell you how bad miners are; but miners can only follow certain rules, and cannot change the protocol.

A miner can reject a block that they do not want to process and risk losing money in the orphaning of anything they win after doing so. A miner can decide whether a block is valid with a thousand transactions or a million transactions and to risk losing money to enforce his decision but cannot change the protocol. If the block cap is set to 128 MB, it has no impact on the protocol. The transaction that Alice and Bob signed remains valid. A transaction signed on a 20-year-old version of Bitcoin software will have remained valid.

For the developers to alter the protocol, they need to fool users and the system into accepting a new and replacing the old software being used.

If a transaction cannot be saved offline for 50 years and then introduced later, the protocol has changed. Bitcoin requires stability in the protocol to be money. It is not just the limits of 21 million bitcoin, and it has nothing to do with the capacity of blocks; the protocol requires that transactions written now remain valid in the future.

Bitcoin (BSV) will have all of the initial opcodes fixed and re-enabled this year. Once this happens, a transaction signed in 2020 within an nLockTime and set for 50 years from then will be valid in 2070. Such is the strength of Bitcoin.

The same will not be the case with SegWit coin (BTC) or any of the other altcoins.

The reason is simple: Unlike Bitcoin, the alternative systems are about developer control. They are a small group of people seeking to control and alter the protocol in Bitcoin because they want to control the monetary and contract system that Bitcoin can create.

Bitcoin is not about giving power to a few developer wizards. It is about taking power away from anyone wanting to change the monetary system. It is removing power. Bitcoin stops anyone from altering the system. It is the strength of Bitcoin. And to achieve such an end, the protocol must be set in stone.

If a developer can change Bitcoin such that a transaction written now will not be valid in a year, 10 years, or even 50 years, it is not Bitcoin.

https://medium.com/@craig_10243/why-the-protocol-is-set-7db4f764c97c
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Bitcoin SV mines first ever 128MB block, proving Satoshi’s Vision !

The Bitcoin SV (BSV) has targeted scaling massively, with the faith that if you provide the world an unlimited block size, developers and users will find a way to create new possibilities. This faith is already confirmed, as the BSV blockchain has now mined its biggest block yet: 128MB.

The momentous occasion came at 12:36 a.m. UTC On March 30, when a 128MB block was confirmed by nChain’s BMG mining pool. The block held 1,440 transactions, and could very well be the record for a while, as it’s the current block cap for the BSV blockchain.

This beat the previous record, set less than an hour earlier, of 124MB. That block was also mined by nChain’s BMG mining pool.

These aren’t isolated incidents either; BSV has seen its block size growing pretty consistently. It hit new records on March 27 with two blocks over 50MB. It then smashed those records with a 113MB block on March 28.

This is once again confirmation that BSV has vindicated Satoshi’s original vision of massive scaling. By giving the world more possibilities, businesses and users have met the challenge and used increased block sizes to their full potential.

Important figures in the Bitcoin world have celebrated this momentous occasion on Twitter. Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy Nguyen commented “We now live in the era of 128MB blocks.”

Since the block cap has been reached, the next step will be to scale even more. The Bitcoin Association has previously stated the goal is to scale to 1GB in the near future, and it looks like that bigger block size will come in handy as the Bitcoin community continues to find new ways to fill those blocks.

There can be little doubt that they will, either. It’s only been a few months since Bitcoin was reborn as Bitcoin SV, and since it started down its path of unlimited scaling, protocol stability, and professionalization, so many businesses and applications have developed and found adoption. Exchanges have come on board, wallets have signed up, and new payment options have adopted BSV. And that’s just talking about the ways BSV can be used as the world’s new money.

Let’s not forget the new ways BSV has unleashed the blockchain as the world’s data network. With the increase of OP_RETURN, apps like Bitstagram and Bitpaste are now possible. Looking to a future where BSV is the place we turn to for data, we also now have Bottle, the BSV blockchain browser, a dedicated way to pull up files saved to the blockchain.

There’s no better time to celebrate the achievements of the BSV blockchain. If you’re looking to mark the occasion, why not check out the upcoming CoinGeek Toronto conference. Like Calvin Ayre noted, this scaling conference will have the top minds of the BSV world, and will celebrate the scaling achievements we’ve already seen. If you want to be a part of it register to attend, and show your appreciation of BSV and save a few bucks by using BitcoinSV via Coingate.

News sourcing from https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-sv-mines-first-ever-128mb-block-proving-satoshis-vision/


Bitcoin SV thriving with massive scaling, big blocks every day !

Big blocks are becoming an everyday affair for the Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain. After the world saw the first 128MB block mined on March 30, several more big blocks have been mined, proving again and again that when Bitcoin was unleashed, it provided possibilities the world was waiting for.

On March 31, at 7:41 p.m. UTC, another 128MB block was mined, this time by CoinGeek Mining. It held 1,398 transactions, and came with an award of 1.27 BSV, higher than the regular block award. That’s crucial, as it demonstrates scaling to allow more transactions in a block, and thus higher fees for the miner, provides a new economic model for miners to pursue for profitability, and allow Bitcoin’s success in the long term.

This block size isn’t a fluke either. The blockchain also saw an 87MB block and a 101MB block on March 31. BSV is proving that the Bitcoin Core (BTC) crowd couldn’t have been more wrong when they said big blocks couldn’t be done. It’s also proving that Bitcoin Cash ABC’s (BCHABC) path of instability and protocol changes drove users and developers away. Instead, they came to BSV, the only crypto using Bitcoin’s original whitepaper as intended, because of the stability it guarantees, and the limitless on-chain possibilities it’s creating from massive scaling.

The long term profitability created by these big blocks, and all the transaction fees they net for miners, can’t be emphasized enough. This is what Bitcoin’s business model was always meant to be, to ensure miners always had a reason to focus their efforts on the blockchain, gaining transaction fees for their work when block rewards dry up.

Instead, the BTC developers who hijacked its protocol and development sold fairy tales of the “Lightning Network.” That model simply isn’t Bitcoin anymore, doesn’t benefit miners, and would only help to enrich the few involved with its creation.

Thankfully, the BSV team has stuck to its convictions, and we’re now seeing the fruits of their labor. The business community has recognized that and come along for the ride too, making these big blocks possible.

Many of these recent record breaking blocks can be credited to the work of Ryan X. Charles and his Money Button team. Their creation of BitPaste, and the new “parallel swipe Money Button,” allowed Charles to fill at least three of these record setting blocks with transactions. He also showed the world how you can use the blockchain to its fullest potential (at least until it scales further) with tools already available to the public.

All of this proves that Satoshi’s original vision, now followed by BSV, has saved Bitcoin. The path championed by Dr. Craig Wright, Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy Nguyen, and well supported by Ryan X. Charles, is creating a world of new possibilities, and for miners, revenue streams. The conditions that created a nightmare for BTC in late 2017, namely a high volume of transactions, is creating rich possibilities with BSV.

BTC proved that without scaling, Bitcoin will die. BSV is now proving that when you unleash the blockchain, Bitcoin thrives.

If you want to celebrate the renewed life of Bitcoin, and the development of Bitcoin SV, what better way than to join the CoinGeek Toronto scaling conference. It’s easy to register, and use the world’s new money to register, and get a discount, by using BitcoinSV via Coingate. Is on https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-sv-thriving-with-massive-scaling-big-blocks-every-day/
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He is right about decentralization. The term is a myth and centralization and decentralization cannot be measured. The word ‘decentralization’ doesn’t appear once in the whitepaper.

Bitcoin and all cryptocurrencies have a central point of failure, internet and electricity.

We’ve had blackouts in Venezuela on and off for 2 weeks, and let me tell you something kiddies:

Bitcoin ain’t working.

Worried about my trust rating? I am too. Bitcointalk users ‘Lauda’ and ‘gmaxwell’ have abused their superior powers in trust system to align their views with the ‘correct views.’ In no legal system in any jurisdiction do we have a definition for what Bitcoin is, they do not have the power to tell us what it is based on the rule of law.
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He is right about decentralization. The term is a myth and centralization and decentralization cannot be measured. The word ‘decentralization’ doesn’t appear once in the whitepaper.

Bitcoin and all cryptocurrencies have a central point of failure, internet and electricity.

We’ve had blackouts in Venezuela on and off for 2 weeks, and let me tell you something kiddies:

Bitcoin ain’t working.

if internet and electricity fail, a lot of other major things also fail: banks, factories, administrations,....
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if internet and electricity fail, a lot of other major things also fail: banks, factories, administrations,....


Detours towards the future will be the answer, other solutions will come Roll Eyes



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Re-engineering the web with blockchain to create a sense of community

As blockchain applications have taken off, one question has taken center stage: Do we build a completely new system or do we build on top of the existing system? Not surprisingly, many developers have gone with the latter. This is because other than the relative ease that comes with the option, it’s also easier to attract users.

However, a new school of thought is emerging that advocates for a complete overhaul of the system. Recently, Unwriter launched Bottle, the first native Bitcoin browser globally >>> https://bottle.bitdb.network/ . Bottle is capable of surfing anything saved on the BSV blockchain, from text to Javascript and CSS. While he could have built on top of the existing systems, he explained why he didn’t:

“The thing is, Bitcoin is NOT “the next web”. In many ways, it’s completely the opposite of what the WWW is, which is why Bitcoin is so powerful. That’s why it’s more beneficial to start from scratch instead of forking an existing full-fledged browser built for the existing WWW, with many legacy features that can constrain future directions.”

And Bottle isn’t the only cutting-edge solution being developed on the Bitcoin SV network. BSV developers are rethinking the internet, and rightly so. In its current format, the internet is skewed for the big tech firms. With Bitcoin Core (BTC) having started out with so much promise, over the years it has veered off from its original path. >>> https://coingeek.com/metanet-icu-invites-developers-to-discuss-bitcoin-sv/

As George Siosi explained in a recent blog post, social media is the first field that the new revolution will disrupt first. >>> https://medium.com/fai%C4%81/the-correlation-between-bitcoin-social-networks-sense-of-community-ec7d180222a
Social media networks are built around the idea of small world networks. This is a concept that states that most nodes in a network are not neighbors, but they can be reached from each other by a small number of hops or steps.

As Siosi explained, social media giants such as Facebook and Snapchat are now turning to building communities centered on the concept of small world networks. While initially, they focused on expanding your social circle, they are now converging their users into small intimate circles.

This creates a sense of community. As the ever-so-insightful Dr. Craig Wright stated, “It is not open platforms people seek but rather closed personal groups and communication with people in a way that allows them to build trust over time. People need to be able to decide what they will consider public, private, or even somewhere in between.” >>> https://coingeek.com/metanet-icu-invites-developers-to-discuss-bitcoin-sv/

With time, developers have come to recognize Bitcoin, not just as currency, but a system on which we can build rebuild most of the applications we currently use. And its advantages over the current systems are inexhaustible. It guarantees its users their identity, protects copyright and prevents misinformation.

Siosi concludes:

“Now, we haven’t even covered how communities have formed around Bitcoin (as an idea) itself, but if we wish to truly innovate, we must discard all that we think we know. We must start from scratch, but with lessons learned from the past.”



Source: https://coingeek.com/re-engineering-the-web-with-blockchain-to-create-a-sense-of-community/
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International patent of Nchain Holding (Bitcoin Satoshi Vision BSV) applies to all Blockchains competitors:
(BTC-ETH-LTC-XRP-EOS-XLM-ADA-TRON-XMR-DASH-MIOTA-NEO-ONT-MKR-XEM-XTZ-ZET-VET-DOGE-BATE-WAVE-QTUM-BTG- other ........ also all others tokens)

WO: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017145048A1/en
US: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190066228A1/en
CN: https://patents.google.com/patent/CN109314636A/en
GB: https://patents.google.com/patent/GB2562622A/en
KR: https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20180115768A/en
EP: https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3420669A1/en


This is BSV. Satoshi's original vision, now produced and in application  >>> This is the future evolution of Bitcoin BTC is BSV. Nchain Holding (BSV) have filed more than 700 different patents with the World Blockchain division and others.



Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017145048A1/en





It is legitimate for Nchain Holding to file patents to protect the innovations and ideas they develop for BSV and Metanet and other future "applications".
Further informations on patents filings concerning Blockchain and IBM, Bank of America, KEB Hanna Bank, Mastercard, Merck, Intel, Oks Xerox, Nasdaq, Wal-Mart, Jp Morgan and others.. check https://coingeek.com/?s=patent Finally the Nchain patents covers everything too. They are the guardians of Satoshi's Vision.

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