John Blocke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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Bring on the Chain Split

In a previous essay, I examined the unlikelihood of a Bitcoin chain split. At the time, hashrate signaling for larger blocks was increasing daily and the prospect of a miner supermajority hard fork appeared likely.

/r/Bitcoin Censorship, Revisited

Note: This post is meant as a follow-up to my original article, A (brief and incomplete) history of censorship on /r/Bitcoin. As the /r/bitcoin moderators will frequently alter the content of threads, the entire thread being referenced in this article has been archived…

It’s Not the Censorship Resistance, Stupid

“At the core of Bitcoin’s value proposition is censorship resistance. Bitcoin has value because it can be used to complete transactions that are likely to be censored on other payment networks.”

-Kyle Torpey, writing for Nasdaq…