Square Crypto has been dispensing out grants to developers working on free, open source projects that underpin the future burgeoning of both the Bitcoin and Lightning networks. This time around, its latest allocation went to a watchtower service for the Bitcoin Lightning. The digital currency creation division of Jack Dorsey’s Square payments company, Square Crypto, […]
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Early Bitcoin Miner Labels Craig Wright a Fraud Via Own BTC Addresses
An early Bitcoin miner signed a cryptographic message using 145 Bitcoin addresses with unspent BTC from 2009, describing Craig Steven Wright as a fraud and a liar. The message was shared on May 21, with a list of addresses and their respective signatures, proving that in fact the addresses belong to the person posting the […]
Would you Call Bitcoin Decentralized if Satoshi was Still a Part of it?
The only difference between deciding a project is decentralized or not is making sure its founder is MIA. Isn’t it? Satoshi Nakamoto the creator of Bitcoin disappeared back in 2011 after handing over the project to Gavin Andresen and the core Bitcoin developers. Unknowingly or knowingly, this created such a powerful effect that any invention […]
Dorian Nakamoto: The Best Satoshi Nakamoto Suspect
A column published on Newsweek back in March 2014 claimed that the man behind the invention of the first digital currency; was a retired physicist by the name Dorian Nakamoto. There have been quite a number of self-declared candidates over the last decade, alongside those accused of being Satoshi. Well, most of these suspects are […]
Main Challenges Hindering Mass Adoption of Bitcoin
It has been roughly eleven years since Satoshi Nakamoto published that whitepaper and inaugurated digital currencies to this world. He had a radical vision of a decentralized electronic cash system which a decade later is groundbreaking. The cryptocurrency industry is currently worth around $210 billion worldwide; plus there are about a thousand more separate tokens […]
John McAfee and Satoshi’s true identity
McAfee John McAfee is a very successful technological businessman who also has something of a reputation as a Maverick. He founded the company that bears his name, and that was a pioneering force in digital security. He’s smart, colorful, controversial, rich, and he likes to speak when he feels like it, using his Twitter account […]
Want a million bucks? Join the Satoshi’s treasure hunt!
Blockstream Satellite broadcasted a message from an anonymous user. It was cryptic and rambling. It was a challenge to the Bitcoin community to join the hunt for a million dollars (198 BTC approximately) which he called “Satoshi’s Treasure.” With no fear of grandiloquence this user said that the contest would “test the resolve, courage, intelligence, […]
What would happen if Craig Wright turns out to be Satoshi Nakamoto?
Craig Wright has claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto in the past, he even says he can prove it in a court of law. Most of the cryptoverse has received Mr. Wright’s claim with skepticism, and he’s even been nicknamed “faketoshi.” A release by WikiLeaks calling him a “document forger” hasn’t helped his case either. In […]