unlicensed engineer @swanbitcoin
building bitcoin mines @reddirtmining
Sep 17, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
1/ The private key lifecycle is a central concept in managing keys for various cryptosystems, say for SSH keys allowing developers to access infrastructure. It's helpful to borrow this methodology for a new type of cryptosystem: Bitcoin.
blog.knoxcustody.com/the-bitcoin-pr…2/ The Private Key Lifecycle helps to define and enforce key management policies. The result is simple: each individual key requires its own policy defining which devices and applications can use it, and what actions (e.g. signing transactions) can be performed by them.
Apr 9, 2020 • 32 tweets • 12 min read
1/ 🚨🚨The EARN IT Act is a cynical, opportunistic attack on encryption leveraging today’s state of panic.🚨🚨
My latest for @knoxcustody, which sees an attack on encryption as an attack on Bitcoin, its business, and its customers.
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2/ Governments have long hated consumer encryption. Leveraging a world distracted by the Coronavirus, the US Federal Government is employing the shock doctrine to try their hand once more at undermining it with the EARN IT Act.
1/ Bitcoin should not be legally defined within financial frameworks, but its scarce information space has accrued value nonetheless.
I’ve been working with @knoxcustody to build a glossary of the best ideas addressing the financialization of Bitcoin.
medium.com/knox-blog/the-…2/ Bitcoin is, first and foremost, a distributed communications protocol. This opens it up to some novel native opportunities that would traditionally require third-party intermediaries and auditors.
Feb 13, 2020 • 32 tweets • 11 min read
1/ Bitcoin is interpreted in many ways, by multiple distinct stakeholders. Regardless, the nature of Bitcoin, inherent to the protocol, remains unaltered—information.
The world’s most tradable information.
Let’s dive into it!
Full read: medium.com/knox-blog/the-…2/ As @eprefon attests, Bitcoin can not properly be classified as a security for a multitude of reasons including a lack of monetary capital, decentralization, and the precedent already set by regulators.
1/ I wrote an accessible analysis on the risks involved in investments such as the @TheRealBlockFi Interest Account. I find legal ToS documents difficult to parse so sought to explore the mysterious world of risk and finance at a basic level: zanepocock.com/blockfi-and-th…2/ Before I go on: this is not a hit piece. I defend @TheRealBlockFi's right to build their business as well as market participants' right to assess whether it's a fit for their own needs. But I don't feel like there is clear enough information out there to do this.
