Yesterday, August 1st 2019, was the second anniversary of Bitcoin Independence Day, in commemoration of when Bitcoin network node operators initiated a User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF) to enforce SegWit activation, against the will of a consortium of large Bitcoin miners and Bitcoin business leaders, ending a years long scaling debate.… Read more
Bitcoin Bites the Bullet – Nic Carter
Here’s an excellent article that should be read and grokked by all who have an interest in cryptocurrency. Nic Carter lays out the design decisions that went into creating Bitcoin, and the reasons Bitcoin implemented the more conservative trade off in each of those design decisions.… Read more
The Hero’s Return
Hey everyone, I’m back. I finished my immersive full-stack web development boot camp at the start of May, and have been in limbo since. I wrote a review of my boot camp experience here. It left me at a place where I felt capable of creating some decent web apps, but overall short on fundamentals and less experienced than I need to be to follow through on my intention for learning to code–to create interesting, useful Bitcoin apps.… Read more
Why Private Peer-to-Peer Payments are Essential to an Open Society
Here is a long read (27 pages) for the weekend, The Case for Electronic Cash: Why Private Peer-to-Peer Payments are Essential to an Open Society by Jerry Brito of Coincenter.org. While I don’t agree with Coincenter on many topics, this is a great primer or refresher for why Bitcoin is important.… Read more
Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism (Mycelium)
I’m back! Dammit, posting regularly is tough. I can’t believe it’s already been almost a month since my last post *facepalm*. I’ve been extremely occupied with my coding boot-camp, but that’s no excuse. After all, consistency is the key to success!!… Read more