The trial of COPA v. Wright is set to start in mid-January 2024. (UPDATE: The trial has now been rescheduled to start on February 5, 2024. Also, see a follow-up article on the case: The Additional Documents in COPA v. Wright.) The case has a unique significance. For the first time, the central issue of a lawsuit involving Dr. Craig S. Wright is the truth itself (Satoshi’s identity), rather than derivative matters such as property… Read More »The key in COPA v. Wright
The trial of COPA v. Wright is set to start in mid-January 2024 (UPDATE: the trial is now rescheduled to start on February 5, 2024). For the first time, the central issue of a lawsuit is the truth (Satoshi’s identity) itself. Thus, the case has a unique significance. In anticipation of COPA v. Wright, I wrote a separate analysis of that case: The key issue in COPA v. Wright. I also wrote a piece on cases… Read More »Cases involving Dr. Craig Wright’s Satoshi identity
Let me explain why the recent events concerning the former nChain CEO Christen Ager-Hanssen are costly signals that are an attestation of the validity of Bitcoin SV (BSV). The mass opinion and assessment of anything usually has multiple layers. In the case of BSV, the base layer of the world’s judgment against BSV is a most hideous and cynical conspiracy charge against it. Specifically, people believe that three individuals (Calvin Ayre, Stefan Matthews, and Dr.… Read More »There is no Satoshi conspiracy in Bitcoin SV
This is an update of the article written in October 2022. A year later, the suspicious and worrisome pattern identified in the original article has indeed continued. In fact, the numbers have become even more suspicious and worrisome. Weekly death numbers in the combined category of ‘COVID-19, pneumonia and cold ‘ have dropped to around 3,500, about 22% (or 1,000) lower than the pre-covid level of 4,500 (when the category was just pneumonia and cold).… Read More »Are COVID-19 vaccines killing people?
I recall a story of Dan David, an activist short-seller against fraudulent Chinese stocks. In a case he made against a company that he believed was committing fraud, there was a moment he was somewhat nervous after he had published his report exposing the fraud. Although he was highly confident of his investigation and had carefully and objectively reasoned to reach his conclusions, he still had a lingering uncertainty: What if I misinterpreted the other… Read More »Conscience, confidence, influence
‘Code is law’ is a proud crypto proclamation. Some may even regard it as an inviolable creed. Few question it. But occasionally, some brave people do voice doubt. Here is an example: “Code is law,” the phrase, is a metaphor which is useful in terms of framing practical realities of the use of smart contract...
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Under the influence of buzzwords such as CBDC, crypto and blockchain, some people think that CBDC is a trivial technical problem, and only a matter of ‘incentivizing’ people’s adoption. While ‘incentivizing’ is a big part in adoption, CBDC does not have a trivial technical problem. It only seems to be so for superficial reasons. Good CBDC must be a genuine digital cash that has at least the following strong features: (1) extremely high scalability;(2) extremely… Read More »What CBDC?
In this post, Worldvest’s Garrett Krause shows admirable insights and steadfastness. The company made a move to tokenize gold on the Bitcoin SV blockchain. Tokenized gold is in itself a great move (see, for example, Gold is superior money, and tokenized gold is a superior currency). However, choosing the Bitcoin SV blockchain requires a different kind of knowledge. Very few can cut through the fog and thickets that currently exist in the cancerous crypto… Read More »Enterprises are starting to see the truth in blockchain
The famous gold advocate Peter Schiff has always claimed that BTC has no value. He is right. But he has started to see that gold can be tokenized on a capable blockchain. Tokenization on a proper blockchain is a form of digitization but has unique advantages over the traditional digitization of gold, such as gold...
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Introduction
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Seeing the existence of evil, some conclude there is no God. But this reasoning boils down to this: because one does not know God, God doesn’t exist. This reasoning is a fallacy. God’s way is higher than man’s way. God’s wisdom is deeper than man’s wisdom. We were created to have three sets of eyes: eyes of the flesh to see the material world, eyes of the soul to see oneself and each other, and… Read More »The eyes of the flesh, soul and spirit