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How Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is fighting for the future of open source software
A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could jeopardize the future of open source software development. That’s according to the Ja
Crypto Startup School: A new type of computer drives waves of innovation
In week one of a16z’s Crypto Startup School, the firm addresses “Crypto Networks and Why They Matter” and “Blockchain Primitives: Cryptography and Consensus.”
It’s The Jons 2019!
Happy New Year! It’s been another wild and wacky ride of a year in the tech world: breakthroughs and disgraces, triumphs and catastrophes, cryptocurrencies and starships, the ongoing rise of uto
The quantum meltdown of encryption
Shlomi Dolev Contributor Shlomi Dolev is the Chair Professor and founder of the Computer Science department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of Self-Stabilization. Shlomi also i
Craig Wright backs out and won’t prove that he is bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto
<a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto">Satoshi Nakamoto</a>, 2016 edition, might not be Craig Wright after all. Just <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/03/craig-
Craig Wright will publish “extraordinary proof” that he is Satoshi
Another day, another confirmation that the shadowy figure called Satoshi Nakamoto is indeed Craig "Verbal" Wright. This time Wright himself claims that he will offer "extraordinary proof" that he is S
Torturing the ghost
So we probably have our Satoshi. The Economist, GQ, and the BBC have all posted semi-breathless stories on their personal interactions with Craig Steven Wright, an Australian computer scientist and in
Satoshi Gulch
Satoshi Nakamoto doesn't exist. He is not one person. He is not even controlled by a single entity. And although I would argue much of his writings were produced by one person and edited by committee,
Money And Politics: Bitcoin’s Governance Crisis
A lot of intriguing and conflicting things have been said about Bitcoin in the past few years. Some see it as the salvation of the financial system, others as a new toy, appealing only to the technolo
An Interview With Nathaniel Popper, Author Of Digital Gold
If you’ve been reading the site lately you’ll notice we’ve gone Digital Gold-crazy. First we started with an amazing excerpt outlining the story of 21.com. Then we posted a review an
“Real” Satoshi Claims He Is Not Dorian Nakamoto
Dorian S. Nakamoto is probably having the weirdest day of his life. In less than 24 hours, the Temple City, California resident has been the subject of a Newsweek cover article "outing" him as the elu
Is This The Real Satoshi Nakamoto?
It should come as no surprise that <a target="_blank" href="http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html">Newsweek</a> suspects Satoshi Nakamoto, the reclusive creator of <a href="