Before I start, let me just say that on the day I wrote this article, most points I cover here were seen as absolutely unrealistic blasphemy as far as 99% of the world is concerned. Bitcoin was still seen by many as too ethereal, too deeply involved with illegal activities…

For those of you who don’t know, GPT-3 by OpenAI is a language model. It’s a conversational AI with a focus on human-like language, able to generate coherent and diverse paragraphs. I’ve been dreaming of integrating its awesome content generation skills into www.storylinecreator.com for many months now, and I was…

This article is an excerpt from my book, A brief introduction to Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s proof-of-work scheme prevents double-spending for slow payments where the payee waits for the transaction to be acknowledged in at least one block. Each new transaction goes through two stages of verification, once after creation and once…

Listed below are selected key events that played a role in Bitcoin’s initial evolution and performance. Due to the great number of important occurrences, the list is incomplete and doesn’t cover all relevant or influencing events. Please understand it as my personal view on what happened in the world of…

This article is an excerpt from my book, A brief introduction to Bitcoin. “It is not sufficient that everyone knows X. We also need everyone to know that everyone knows X, and that everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone knows X — which, as in the Byzantine Generals’ problem…