From the very first release on January 8th, 2009, the Bitcoin source code included copyright and licensing information. The software was released under the open-source MIT License, a very unrestrictive license, allowing use of the Bitcoin software in many different use-cases, effectively placing the Bitcoin source code in the public domain from inception. The first […]
Last week, notorious Faketoshi Craig Wright took the stand in the @hodlonaut vs. Craig Wright trial in Norway. While on the stand giving his testimony, Craig Wright was being questioned by his counsel about sharing “early” pre-release versions of the whitepaper and code, and asked “did you share the code at any state or discuss […]
While pandemic-distancing, I’ve been spending a lot of time at home behind my computer. Given that I haven’t written any code in probably close to a decade at this point, I decided to spend some of my available time relearning a programming language and coding up some simple projects. The first of these projects is […]
If you’ve been following cryptoassets like Bitcoin or other altcoins for long, you’ve probably heard the phrase “buy the dip”, but may not know exactly what this means. You might assume it means “buy when the price goes down”, and for the most part you’d be right, but depending on your personal cryptoasset strategy, what […]
This public announcement is to inform the public that Trammell Ventures recently came across an ICO listed on ICObench called ‘ bitdraw.online.’ Many of you may recognize the name “BitDraw” or “bitdraw.com” as it was a site created by Dustin D. Trammell (aka I)ruid and I}ruid), CEO of Trammell Ventures, years ago as an online […]
Over what now approaches a decade since Satoshi first published the Bitcoin white paper there has been continued speculation of who might be Satoshi. Over time, various people—myself included—have been imagined to be Satoshi for various reasons. Certain would-be Satoshis have made attempts to claim that they are Satoshi. Unfortunately some have even been so […]