#Bitcoin protocol

Bitcoin Subverts Power, But this does not make it Democratic

February 11, 2017 by Christoph Bergmann at Bitcoin, Commentary, News, Tech

A sociologist from the UK analyzes in a paper, how Bitcoin can be understood as a political technology. The approach is pretty interesting - even if the result is somehow weak. Tom Redshaw is Ph.D. at the School of Social Science at the Manchester University. And when it happens that...

Bcoin: “Menace” to the Bitcoin Network?

February 4, 2017 by Christine Chiang at Bitcoin, Commentary, News, Tech

In the context of Satoshi Nakamoto’s early warning to Gavin Andresen in 2010 on Bitcointalk against building minority versions of the Bitcoin protocol, secondary implementations were at the time dubbed “menace” to the network. “I don't believe a second, compatible implementation of Bitcoin will ever be a good idea. So...