My motivation for working on Bitcoin is actually several decades old. In one of my first jobs we had some consultants visit us explaining all the ins and outs of a retirement plan. As most people young

I wrote some days ago about the creation, investment, rentier triple of how people can earn money (here). The first two create value for those people. A gain seen not just by those that do the work. Should

Where do I want to go? I've been asking myself. To answer where, I would need to know why, I thought. Why am I interested in Bitcoin in the first place? It has to do with socio-economics. Let me explain.

There is a air of oppression that lifted in the Bitcoin Cash ranks. This is still something we are getting used to, but the change is clear and the benefits are slowly being realized. We used to live with

Flexible Transactions is a technology I wrote that does only one thing, and it does it well. It upgrades the way that a Bitcoin transaction is stored. The way that Satoshi Nakamoto initially designed the

When Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash split, we made sure that there was no possibility of user losing money because their BCC transactions would somehow be valid on the BTC chain. Or vice versa. This has done

I've seen more people ask some important questions about worries they have with regards to SegWit and specifically how those worries apply to Flexible Transactions. At The Future Of Bitcoin event Peter

Release Announcement Bitcoin Classic 1.3.5 August 22st, 2017. Bitcoin Classic updates the 1.3 version with various bugfixes. Most important a fix the issue that some people saw their node getting 'stuck'

As the Bitcoin Cash chain is maturing and we are getting more and more excited voices about it, I expect people that currently run full nodes may want to switch to run Bitcoin Cash instead. Cash has from

August 3st, 2017. Bitcoin Classic updates the 1.3 version to add the ability to switch a datadir from BTC to the BCC chain. As the latest, and likely last, in the crazy week of Classic releases in relation

Over the last month we have seen an accelerated amount of effort being put into finally fixing the problems that have been bothering real users for months now. As the dust is not nearly ready to settle,

In Bitcoin the one thing that is still being discussed quite a lot it is Segregated Witness, the hot technology that the people from Bitcoin Core announced to the world in December 2015. As the months

As we near the closing of 2016 (year of the Monkey) there is a growing awareness in Bitcoin on how we can solve the question of block size limits for many years to come. Please see here for an overview

Today I published a video that goes into the details of what things are relevant as to decide what the best way is to add features and what it means to upgrade the Bitcoin protocol? In this video I talk

I've blogged before about Flexible Transactions (steemit)as a simpler codebase that could solve the problems that BlockStream has been trying to make SegWit solve. With new issues being found in SegWit

In a recent article bitcoin.com owner and Bitcoin Jesus, Roger K Ver wrote about some of the problems we face in growing Bitcoin. As we face a greater popularity in the crypto world, and Bitcoin still

Hello everyone, I'm Tom Zander developer and architect on Bitcoin Classic and overall believer in Bitcoin as a solution for everyone to use and buy their coffee with. After having looked at Steemit from

I've been asked one question quite regularly and recently with more force. The question is about Segregated Witness and specifically what a hard fork based version would look like. Segregated Witness (or