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Solana vs. Bitcoin SV (BSV)

Solana is one of the very few blockchains that took scalability seriously and produced remarkable results, currently boasting 50,000 TPS at peak load. Solana is based on a new consensus called “Proof of History” (PoH) which, along with other accompanying designs, enabled parallelization (horizontal scaling). Its apparent success is a concrete proof that horizontally scalable...

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Merging Digitality and Physicality

Volume I: Digital Humanity’s Truth Layer - The New Internet, its Authenticity Layer, and Applications
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Why BTC is a value-absorbing system, while the real Bitcoin is a value-creating system

Even before you get into deeper technical inquiries, it is rather evident in their distinct and conspicuous outward manners that Bitcoin Core (BTC) is a value absorbing system, while Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) a value creating system. Perhaps just a few minutes of experience in the atmosphere of the two recent conferences held by BTC...

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Proof-of-Work (PoW) is the Only Way to Prevent Corruption

There is a very fundamental reason why Proof-of-Work (PoW) is the only way to prevent corruption: In this world, work is the only thing that cannot be hacked (faked, pretended, stolen, hijacked, abused, or manipulated), everything else can, including authority, identity, status, history, relationship, agreement, whatever. The concept of “work” goes deep in physics or...

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Introduction
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Why I Believe Craig Wright is Most Likely Satoshi

I believe Australian polymath Craig S. Wright is most likely Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. First, a bit of the background and my qualifications. I have accumulated thousands of working and researching hours in the blockchain field, scholarly and professionally, and therefore not a dabbler on the subject. My cross disciplinary background that combines...

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Volume I: Digital Humanity’s Truth Layer - The New Internet, its Authenticity Layer, and Applications
Introduction
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Modern Monetary Theory and Blockchain Economies

This was meant to be a casual comment on Economist Chuanwei (David) Zou’s recent article “Cryptocurrency – From the View of Modern Monetary Theory“, but it exceeded Linkedin’s maximum character limit for a comment (a strange limitation to say the least), hence a separate article. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is an interesting tool for analyzing blockchain economies. David’s arguments that money is not only inherently but also historically related to credit and debt (versus the… Read More »Modern Monetary Theory and Blockchain Economies

Bitcoin, Chaos and Order

“Craig Wright interview Bitcoin, Chaos and Order in Religion” is a very interesting interview. CSW is more of a theologian than a man of faith (or if he is, he isn’t revealing it). At least as far as Bitcoin and CSW’s public opinions are concerned, he is not relating the topic to eternity, but only to the present world in practical terms, despite the fact that the particular interview is meant to cover religion. For… Read More »Bitcoin, Chaos and Order

The Idea of “Digital Gold” — BTC’s Value Fundamentals

The idea of “digital gold” is probably the most creative idea that has ever come from Bitcoin Core (BTC), a distorted and neutered version of the original Bitcoin (see, BTC and Bitcoin, what is the real difference?).

First, the idea of “gold” has provided a very powerful and convenient attachment point for people who do not understand technology and economics. It is powerful because the analogy has a lot of truth in it.

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BTC and Bitcoin, what is the real difference?

Although BTC is commonly taken as the synonym of Bitcoin at the present time, it is in reality drastically different from Bitcoin created by Satoshi Nakamoto (a pseudo name, whose real identity I believe is Dr. Craig S. Wright) according to the Bitcoin whitepaper.

Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV), on the other hand, has remained true to Bitcoin.

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Introduction
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A lesson from dot-com era for crypto investors

The dot-com boom and bust From June 1997 to January 2000, within two and half years, Amazon stock had a 70x run, i.e., 7000% (you think the present stock market bull run is dazzling?). From January 2000 to October 2001, during the dot-com crash, in a bit over one and a half years, Amazon stock dropped by more than 90% (but still 3.5 times higher than the 1997 IPO price). From October 2001 to now… Read More »A lesson from dot-com era for crypto investors

Gold & Silver are Not Investments

Gold and silver prices may have been manipulated, but that does not necessarily mean that the current prices are severely undervalued. Below, I argue that the present fair market value of the gold price should be near $2,400 per ounce, about 30% higher than the current price of $1830, while silver price should be near $35 per ounce, also about 30% higher than the current price of $26. In other words, there is some undervaluation,… Read More »Gold & Silver are Not Investments