January 9, 2020 – Cambridge, England – Bitcoin Association announces its first “Satoshi Nakamoto Scholarship” to Robin Kohze, a 2nd year human genomics PhD student at Cambridge University. Named after Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto (aka Dr. Craig S. Wright), the scholarship supports study and technological development of real world blockchain applications made possible by Bitcoin’s original design, now represented by Bitcoin SV (BSV).

After a series of successful blockchain competitions, Kohze took 2nd place at Bitcoin’s Association’s second Bitcoin SV Hackathon, with final judging at the CoinGeek Seoul conference in South Korea in October 2019. His “HIVE” protocol challenges the media landscape by implementing a molecular dynamic inspired incentive system whereby information is added by individuals around the world. Every content node containing information needs one or more linked nodes and every new link to a node has a dynamic cost to generate comprehensive knowledge networks. The resulting graph database is directly stored and maintained on the Bitcoin SV blockchain to grant a maximum of interoperability and transparency. The Satoshi Nakamoto scholarship will enable Kohze to develop HIVE into a fully functioning platform (including Android and iOS applications).

Bitcoin Association’s Founding President Jimmy Nguyen explained: “As part of our organization’s mission, we want to support the next generation of great Bitcoin thinkers and developers. Robin Kohze is an exceptionally talented mind who understands Bitcoin’s technical capabilities to transform data interactions, and we are thrilled to award him our first ever Satoshi Nakamoto Scholarship. We look forward to his HIVE project being realized to create real world value, and also appreciate his work to educate fellow Cambridge students about the Satoshi Vision for Bitcoin.”

Kohze remarked: “Exceptional times require extraordinary – and sometimes daring ideas. A decade after the creation of the Bitcoin protocol by Satoshi Nakamoto, we stand on the brink of a global paradigm shift towards yet unseen frictionless global cooperation. With HIVE, I utilise the original Bitcoin protocol to implement a novel combination of game theoretical rule-sets to reconnect diverging perspectives in an increasingly polarised media landscape. I feel deeply honoured to receive the first Satoshi Nakamoto Scholarship that enables the research and development of the HIVE protocol and thank the Bitcoin Association as well all the many committed developers around Bitcoin SV ecosystem to make those endeavours possible.”

Kohze is founder of the Cambridge University Metanet Society, which draws its name from Dr. Craig Wright’s visionary “Metanet” – an Internet that actually operates on the Bitcoin blockchain. In addition to creating Bitcoin, Dr. Wright is Chief Scientist of nChain, the global leading blockchain advisory, research and development firm, and has created one of the world’s largest blockchain patent portfolios. nChain’s Metanet project enables a better Internet for users, where everyone can earn real value (through Bitcoin) from their data, content, identity, and online activity. It takes advantage of Bitcoin’s dual capabilities to simultaneously send data and financial payments, and is only possible on the Bitcoin SV blockchain due to its massive scaling capability.
Under Kohze’s leadership, the Cambridge University Metanet Society advances study toward achieving Metanet projects on BSV. It hosts weekly meetups and programs on the Cambridge University campus for students and thought leaders to hear speakers, debates and tutorials, and helps build a new generation of Bitcoin developers that create applications with real world utility.

Bitcoin Association is the global industry organization for the business of Bitcoin. It supports the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) blockchain which has seen application development explode globally as developers and businesses make use of BSV’s greater scaling, data and micropayments capacities. Growing usage has led BSV’s network transactions and average block size block counts to regularly surpass BTC and recently surpass the Ethereum network on some days. Bitcoin SV is the only project that adheres to Satoshi Nakamoto’s original protocol, design and vision for Bitcoin to become a peer-to-peer electronic cash system and global data ledger for enterprise.

Keynote speakers are Wall Street strategist Tom Lee and Best-Selling Author & Economist George Gilder

London, United Kingdom – 23 January 2020. Last held in London in November 2018, the CoinGeek Conference returns to London at the popular Old Billingsgate venue February 20-21. Over 40 business and technology leaders from around the world will take the stage to discuss the future of blockchain technology. The conference will highlight the stunning growth of the Bitcoin SV (BSV) ecosystem, the fastest growing blockchain ever, and its ability to enable enterprise applications for banking, gaming, social media, supply chain, healthcare, artificial intelligence and more industry sectors.

Headlining the event are two renowned keynote speakers:

• Thomas Lee is a Managing Partner and the Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors. He is an accomplished Wall Street strategist with over 25 years of experience in equity research, and has been top ranked by Institutional Investor every year since 1998. Prior to co-founding Fundstrat, he served most recently as J.P. Morgan’s Chief Equity Strategist from 2007 to 2014. He is a frequent speaker on CNBC, Bloomberg News and Fox Business News.
• George Gilder is a famed economist, writer, investor and technology visionary. Gilder is the best-selling author of Wealth & Poverty, Knowledge & Power, The Israel Test, The Scandal of Money, and Life After Google. He will speak about “Fixing Ponzi Money and Porous Internet with Satoshi’s Blockchain.”

Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) is the only blockchain project that adheres to Satoshi Nakamoto’s original protocol and design for Bitcoin to become a peer-to-peer electronic cash system and global data ledger for enterprise. With its massive scaling, greater data and microtransaction capabilities, BSV can now enable a world where data, transactions and digital activity of all types can be “on-chain” on a single public blockchain, just like the world operates online on a single public Internet. Along with Gilder, other speakers at CoinGeek London will discuss how Bitcoin technology can actually improve the Internet:

• Bitcoin creator and nChain Chief Scientist Dr. Craig S. Wright will talk about his true vision for Bitcoin, and how its technology can power the “Metanet” to give more value to users, their data and online activity.
• Expect exciting announcements from Jeff Chen, Founder & CEO of Maxthon LTD (one of the world’s top browsers), when he speaks about Internet browsers and domains in a BSV blockchain world.

Many more industries will be showcased by the speakers, reflecting the diverse business use cases of the BSV blockchain:

• Banking and finance leaders Thomas Moser, Alternate Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank; Shawn Dorsch, Founder & President of electronic trading company Clear Markets; Holger Vogel from Basler Kantonalbank / Bank Cler in Switzerland; and Michael Hudson, Founder & CEO of crypto advisory and management firm BitStocks.
• The health care sector will be represented by a trio of speakers. Ken Hill, Founder & Chairman of the Board, PDX Inc. and EHRData Inc., Cheryl D. Jorgenson, Chief Clinical Officer, PDX Inc., and Ron Austring, President, Deadalos Inc. will give an anticipated presentation about the “BSV Blockchain: Developing a Global Patient Record for the Healthcare Industry.”
• Entertainment visionary Alexander Shulgin, Founder & CEO, Gruppa Kompaniy Familia, will join a panel about enterprise use of blockchain. Shulgin is a renowned Russian music artist composer, and producer; his company specializes in investment and venture capital in the blockchain, entertainment and publishing sectors.
• Matt Dickson, CEO of BitBoss Corp., will speak about how BSV is building new efficiencies for online gambling.
• Scientific research about artificial intelligence on the Bitcoin blockchain will be presented by renowned financial cryptographer Ian Grigg and Konstantinos Sgantzos, Scientific Advisor, Bolooba and Former Researcher & International Lecturer, University of Thessaly.
• Leading blockchain technology company nChain is well represented by its CEO, David Washburn, CTO Steve Shadders and others. Angela Holowaychuk, CEO of TAAL Distributed Information Technologies, Inc., a publicly-traded Canadian company, will discuss the new mining transaction fee economy on Bitcoin SV. And Dr. Daniel Diemers – Partner/ Head of Blockchain EMEA – PwC Strategy& will offer his expertise about enterprise blockchain needs.

Conference speakers will also include numerous Bitcoin SV entrepreneurs from across the world who are building exciting BSV ventures.

Jimmy Nguyen, Founding President of Bitcoin Association, the global industry organization which backs Bitcoin SV and one of the world’s leading Bitcoin advocates, will host the conference and lead a number of sessions.

CoinGeek London 2020 is the latest instalment of CoinGeek’s headline events across the world – following prior events in Hong Kong, Toronto, Seoul, and London. This conference comes just as BSV is capturing significant attention, with its application development exploding globally. BSV’s network transactions and average block size block counts now regularly surpass BTC and even surpass the Ethereum network on some days.

While the CoinGeek conference is focused on Bitcoin SV, its inclusive environment incorporates speakers who also work with other cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects, and welcomes all attendees interested in learning about BSV.

With an expected audience of over 500 global blockchain, finance, technology and business executives and entrepreneurs, the event will conclude with another legendary after-party of the type CoinGeek has become famous for. Expect amazing entertainment, top DJs, fantastic food, and copious drinks, capping off CoinGeek’s return to London with dynamic energy that is unique to Bitcoin SV and the Satoshi Vision. Coingeek London is sponsored by Bitcoin Association, nChain, TAAL, Bitstocks, and Blockchain Domes (United American Corp.).

July 18, 2019 – Seattle, WA – On July 24, 2019, the Bitcoin SV (BSV) network will undergo a key protocol upgrade focused on scaling. The “Quasar” upgrade lifts the default block size “hard cap” on BSV from its current 128MB to 2GB (2000 MB). Although the default maximum block size will be 2GB, initially, a significant portion of miner hash rate will manually set their hard cap to a lower (but still very robust) level of 512MB – far higher than any other competing Bitcoin project.

The Quasar upgrade represents a key step in BSV’s journey to unlock the massive on-chain scaling power that was always possible with Bitcoin, and enable BSV to become the global enterprise blockchain. BSV can already handle 300+ transactions per second comfortably; this capacity is continually being expanded and is expected to cross 1000+ transactions per second in the coming months after the Quasar network upgrade. This level of capacity can compete with VISA payment network capacity and also supports enterprise applications.

BSV is the only coin with a blockchain that significantly scales (now), has robust utility (now), and is committed to a set-in-stone protocol for developers to build on (return to original Bitcoin protocol to be completed by February 2020). BSV is also the only coin that adheres to the original Bitcoin white paper. In short, BSV is Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy Nguyen comments on how the Quasar upgrade helps Bitcoin miners: “Miners need to be aware that massive scaling is critical for their profitability – especially after the next block reward halving in May 2020 which reduces the block reward subsidy from 12.5 to 6.25 coins, and then again in 2024 when the subsidy is reduced to 3.125 coins, and again every several years after. For mining to remain profitable, miners need to earn more in transaction fees from each block to compensate for the lower block reward subsidy. This is only possible on BSV. During a May 21, 2019 test on the BSV Scaling Test Network, a 1.42GB block was mined – which resulted for the first time in transaction fees were more than the 12.5-coin block reward subsidy. This is how Bitcoin’s economic model is meant to work, and this is what Satoshi always envisioned to ensure miners remain profitable.”

The BSV network will upgrade to Quasar on July 24, 2019 at approximately 13:00 G.M.T. Mining nodes and blockchain listeners are encouraged to immediately update their BSV software, in advance of the network upgrade. (Miners write to the blockchain. In contrast, “blockchain listeners” are businesses and individuals who run an instance of Bitcoin SV – such as exchanges and wallet operators – but are not involved in mining and thus do not write to the blockchain.)

A more detailed announcement of the Quasar upgrade is available here, with specific recommendations for miners and blockchain listeners. Source code for the Quasar upgrade will be available on the BitcoinSV.io website at: https://download.bitcoinsv.io/bitcoinsv/0.2.1/.

Steve Shadders, nChain’s Chief Technology Officer and Technical Director of the Bitcoin SV Node team previews what is coming next: “With the Quasar upgrade, Bitcoin is beginning a cultural transition as miners start learning it is their role to manage block sizes based upon market forces and their own economic incentives, rather than leaving block size to be arbitrarily dictated by protocol developers. In February 2020, the BSV network will take another step in this transition with its ‘Genesis’ upgrade – in which the Bitcoin SV Node team will completely remove the default hard cap (or more accurately, the default hard cap will be infinite). This will open the door to infinite scaling of the BSV network, and foster the new Bitcoin culture where miners are responsible for block size.”

About Bitcoin Association:
The Bitcoin Association is the leading global organization for Bitcoin business. It brings together merchants, exchanges, application developers, enterprises, miners and others in the Bitcoin ecosystem to advance the business of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Association supports Bitcoin SV (BSV) as the original Bitcoin, with a stable protocol and scaling roadmap to become the world’s new money and global public blockchain for enterprise.