Cypherpunk Cogitations

This essay is part 3 in my Quantum Series.

25 years ago I was taking AP courses at a local community college early in the morning and then driving to my high school mid-morning for the rest of my classes.

Heads up: this is a lengthy historical review.

It has been nearly 9 years since the conclusion of the block size debate and ensuing fork war.

Robocalls are really annoying.

This essay is part 2 in my Quantum Series.

BIP-110 is a proposed soft fork aimed at temporarily limiting arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions to "protect" Bitcoin as money by reducing what proponents consider to be "spam."

As I’ve noted many times in the past, backing your bitcoin wallet with a fully validating node gives you the strongest security model and privacy model that is available to Bitcoin users.

The spam / filters / Knots debate has been simmering for a decade, heated up a few years ago when ordinals became a thing, and has been blazing over OP_RETURN policy changes for the past 6 months.

The Hidden Cost of Taxing Illusory Gains You're likely already familiar with the concept of inflation: the steady erosion of a currency's purchasing power due to rising prices.

Note: if you're prefer to consume this essay in video presentation formation, check out my keynote here: An address poisoning attack is a form of social engineering in which a malicious actor tries to trick users into sending cryptocurrency to the wrong a…

Note: if you'd prefer to consume this essay in audio format, you can listen to it here (narrated by Guy Swann of the Bitcoin Audible Podcast.)

Note: if you're prefer to consume this essay in video presentation formation, check out my keynote here: Nobody: Absolutely no one: Nary a single bitcoiner: Me: "let's discuss changing the block size!"

Lately some folks have been pushing a half baked narrative that Jack is Satoshi; you can find their arguments here: WHY JACK DORSEY IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO Jack Dorsey was: 1 of ~1,300 confirmed cypherpunks in 1996 (his UMR email) Wore an Adam Back t-shirt in…

I’ve always been fascinated with the raw numbers relating to the operational status and growth of Bitcoin, especially as we ride the rollercoaster of the adoption life cycle.

The recent Bitcoin Core v28 release added support for a new feature that has been under development for 5 years.