Monthly Archives: November 2018

Winner by TKO: Bitcoin SV

Yesterday Coingeek posted Original Bitcoin is Reborn with Bitcoin SV (BSV); BCH Hash War Ends. From the article: CoinGeek Mining is pleased to announce the original Bitcoin is back with Bitcoin SV (ticker: BSV). CoinGeek will support a permanent chain split from Bitcoin Cash (BCH), continue mining the BSV chain, and will work with others globally to establish a vibrant ecosystem …

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Bitcoin In One Lesson

The intention of this post is to share very simply why Bitcoin works so well and why it will be the only cryptocurrency left standing by next year. To start, here’s a screenshot from the first page of the Bitcoin Whitepaper. Note I have highlighted the word System. This word is often overlooked when talking about Bitcoin. Drilling down on …

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A Bitcoin Call to Arms

On November 15 Bitcoin Cash hard forked when two developer groups disagreed on the future of Bitcoin Cash. I covered the background in this post. Read that for a primer on how we got here. When there are multiple groups competing to be the default ruleset and client used to run the Bitcoin Cash network the issue is resolved using Nakamoto Consensus. …

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HASH WAR!

Bitcoin Cash is headed to war. Actual Bitcoin Cash holder staring down the war machines. Who is at war? Bitcoin ABC, the Bitcoin client led by developer Amaury Sechet and supported by mining giant Bitmain is proposing changes to BCH. Amaury took the initiative to split away from BTC before Segwit was introduced, thus preserving Bitcoin as BCH. nChain, led …

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