Kurt Wuckert Jr
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Miami, FL, United States
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Scammer Cartel Cocktails Book drops on RelayX
The commemorative cocktail recipe book is filled with recipes from the participants in the “Scammers Cartel” group, and all issued by a RelayX NFT mint and distributed with a physical and digital version. → Read More
Bitcoin and Securities: Law is coming
Liberty begins with personal responsibility leading to a culture of responsibility—have we seen this in the blockchain space? No, not by a long mile, Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes. → Read More
Inordinate Ordinals for ordinary Bitcoiners
Twetch came out with a bunch of tooling within 48 hours of the public explosion of Ordinals NFTs and launched a mint of 69 “Planetary Ordinals” to kick off the party. → Read More
Barry Silbert was bullish on Bitcoin BSV—even in 2014
Barry Silbert was bullish on bitcoin in 2014; however, in 2017-2022, he turned to a multi-chain and speculation/trading-based investment strat, leading to one of the major bankruptcies of this bear market. → Read More
Faketoshi Series (Hal Finney): The men who are not Satoshi—Part 3
Hal Finney was a universally well-liked member of the Bitcoin community from week one, and he fit the profile of what the earliest bitcoiners assumed Satoshi Nakamoto should have looked like. → Read More
Humans of BSV
Here are the people who deserve a lot of credit for making 2022 awesome by leading the way, working hard, and helping keep the DNA of BSV healthy. → Read More
BTC hash power centralization
Industry players behind the BTC software control the hash power, while companies with weak cash positions and low debt suffer, cementing BTC's position as a 'very, very' centralized system. → Read More
Muties make history!
After what has been a very productive year for Twetch, this week, they marked up another first in the entire Web3 space in ways that can only be done on BSV with Muties NFT collection. → Read More
Was this BSV’s bottom?
Kurt Wuckert Jr. has been predicting that BSV would take back market dominance during the bear market: a trend that has now been confirmed as BTC has given back its gains all the way back to late 2017. → Read More
Hash war revisited
The story of the BSV/BCH hash war is a brutal chapter in Bitcoin, and it laid the groundwork for much of what has transpired since, but that story has been told a few times. → Read More
Nothing is over!
In 2022, we should be excited about Mastercard running atop of Bitcoin, but we have messed around for too long while letting the lizards steer the ship. → Read More
Mine about it
Four key things to take note of when mining: the subsidy is there to help us build, transaction fees must outstrip subsidies, hardware needs to be bought, and don't focus on dollar-based economics. → Read More
KYC sucks
As a subset of Anti Money Laundering (AML) laws and regulations, Know Your Customer places a lot of burden on companies to secure client data. → Read More
If everyone jumped off a bridge…
A purely free-market-based currency secured by economic incentives would lead to greater cooperation and remove the need for all kinds of nonsense arbitration so we could focus on the things that matter to us outside of Bitcoin. → Read More
Kurt’s personal blog: Unbounded Capital Investor Summit 2022
In the shadow of Chelsea Market, some key figures and founders of the BSV economy walked past glowing NFT art on the walls of the lobby to entice investors with stories of the businesses running on the most scalable blockchain on earth. → Read More
Red lasers, Red Revolution and Bitcoin
A lot of de facto Bitcoin culture is a conglomeration of the anti-bank, anti-state activism of the cypherpunks which include a mix of anarcho capitalists and anarcho communists who always saw cryptography, internet culture and ‘cryptocurrency’ as a way to seek freedom, commit crime and subvert societal norms in varying dosage of each. → Read More
BSV Claims Ltd: A personal story
Predatory financial and social engineers have engaged in a proxy war for the heart and soul of Bitcoin by controlling the puppet strings and cash flows behind closed doors to reward the willing and punish the loyalists in the Bitcoin Civil War. → Read More
I crashed Mining Disrupt 2022
Hashing for subsidies has been extremely profitable, and the continual arms race in hashing has led to levels of efficiency that were frankly unfathomable to the Bitcoin economy just a decade ago. → Read More
Maintaining power: A Core story
Critics of the BIP process have claimed for years that the roles of “Editor” and “Maintainer” are dangerous points of centralization, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes. → Read More
Won’t get fooled again
Investment schemes have been around for a very long time. Modern investment fraud goes back into the 1800s, and fractional reserve bank runs go back to at least the 1600s. → Read More