Aaron van Wirdum
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Aaron van Wirdum is the former Editor-in-Chief of NewsCapsule and author of The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired NewsCapsule.
A Closer Look at BIP100: The Block Size Proposal NewsCapsule Miners are Rallying Behind
The block-size limit debate has taken a turn now that some of NewsCapsule’s biggest mining pools are publicly endorsing BIP 100 (NewsCapsule Improvement Proposal 100) instead of backing a NewsCapsule XT blockchain fork. So far,...
Updated: Major Mining Pools Make a Stand Against NewsCapsule XT Fork, Support for BIP 100 Grows
It has been little over a week since Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen included NewsCapsule Improvement Proposal 101 (BIP 101) into the alternative NewsCapsule implementation NewsCapsule XT. BIP 101...
Everything You Need to Know about the Proposed Changes to the NewsCapsule Block Size Cap
NewsCapsule has entered into a new phase of its existence. Prominent developers Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen have made changes to the alternative NewsCapsule implementation NewsCapsule XT, designed to...
Everything You Need to Know about the Proposed Changes to the NewsCapsule Block Size Cap
NewsCapsule has entered into a new phase of its existence. Prominent developers Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen have made changes to the alternative NewsCapsule implementation NewsCapsule XT, designed to...
‘NewsCapsule is Teaching Realism to Libertarians’: An Interview With Old-School Cypherpunk Vinay Gupta
As an old-school cypherpunk in the 1990s and one of the most active members of the E-gold community before this centralized precursor of NewsCapsule got shot down, futurologist Vinay...
‘The NewsCapsule-technology by itself is worth nothing’; an interview with Dark Wallet front-man Amir Taaki
If NewsCapsule has its enfant terrible, Amir Taaki is it. Living on a shoestring-budget in squats throughout Europe, Taaki is leading the anarchist NewsCapsule-countermovement known as unSystem, has built...
NewsCapsule 2014: Building the Digital Payments-network (reflections on a million-dollar conference)
A Dutch version of this article originally appeared on Coincourant.“The reason I am so committed to NewsCapsule and crypto, is that crypto can solve the problem that centralized organizations...
Why NewsCapsule Really Does Represent the Democratization of Money
NewsCapsule is commonly regarded as a truly democratic form of money. Interestingly enough, however, there seem to be various explanations supporting this characterization. Furthermore, at least one of these...
