Bob Summerwill

Earlier this month I attended my second Bitcoin Conference, held at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas.

Last week, Isabella Santos released an 11 minute video entitled “Ethereum – How a Lie Became Worth Billions”, which has had a good number of views and retweets. I watched it and am sorry to say that it contains a large number of inaccuracies and bad assumptions. I made some...

Earlier this week I made a guest appearance on the third episode of the “Early Days of Ethereum” series which Kieren James-Lubin, Victor Wong and James Hormuzdiar, the Co-Founders of BlockApps have been making in the past month or two.

Kieren James-Lubin, Victor Wong and James Hormuzdiar, the Co-Founders of BlockApps, have produced two videos in the last month or so reminiscing on the early days of Ethereum. The videos have been a delight for me to watch. While their journey overlaps with my own, I am learning some things...

Recovered 🙂

On 23rd November 2022, Alexey Sharp of the Erigon team announced that Erigon were winding down support for the Akula client which they had been developing for nearly two years. During that time there were 722 commits from 21 contributors, with the vast majority being single-handed work from Artem Vorotnikov....

There have been rumblings for years about the BSV project’s plans related to “court orders”. The Bitcoin (BSV) Association dropped a bombshell on 5th October 2022, announcing their Digital Asset Recovery Process and releasing the Blacklist Manager. This is the closest that we have seen to on-chain censorship for any...

“ASIC resistance” is a myth. The author rejects that myth as do many other individuals within the ETC ecosystem.

**UPDATE - We have a room assigned! H.3244 on Sunday 2nd February between 11.30 and 12.30. That is upstairs in the H building which has the info centre, T-shirts and some of the rooms for the talks. Look for the BoF signs pointing in the right way. **