BITCOIN ASSOCIATION AWARDS FIRST SATOSHI NAKAMOTO SCHOLARSHIP TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PHD STUDENT

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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.

CoinGeek London 2020 Blockchain Conference Features Global Speaker Lineup of Business & Technology Leaders

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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.).

5th CoinGeek Conference heads to London’s Old Billingsgate, February 20-21

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Major event advances Bitcoin SV blockchain

London – December 10, 2019 – Having taken place in Hong Kong, Toronto and Seoul, the CoinGeek band wagon rolls back into London for the second time as they highlight to businesses, developers, media and investors how the fastest-ever growing blockchain, Bitcoin SV (BSV), can provide real life solutions, right now.

Bitcoin SV (BSV) application development has exploded globally, including across Europe, to take advantage of BSV’s greater data capacity and very low-fee, micropayments capabilities. Growing usage has led BSV’s average block sizes and average transaction per block count to regularly surpass BTC. BSV is also the only project that adheres to the original design of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. In short, BSV is Bitcoin.

The last CoinGeek Conference (Seoul, October 2019) saw the announcement about launch of Korean mobile music content service BUSKON built on the BSV blockchain by ONEStore, the second largest mobile app store in South Korea. At CoinGeek Seoul, U.S. gaming technology Bitboss unveiled its hardware device and system that changes how gamblers use and store casino credits, using BSV or BSV tokens with digital wallets on player’s mobile phones. Additional highlights from the Korea event were Pixel Wallet’s plans for a new identity management system built on the BSV blockchain, and presentation about sCrypt – a high-level smart contract language for BSV.

A full roster of speakers for London will be announced shortly but will include Bitcoin creator and Chief Scientist at blockchain technology company nChain, Dr Craig S. Wright, and the Founding President of Bitcoin Association, Jimmy Nguyen. Tickets are on sale now and venue details are available here.

Bitcoin Association announces: LatAm Ambassadors to further boost Bitcoin SV (BSV)

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On the back of the recent appointments of its US, APAC and European Ambassadors, the Bitcoin Association is pleased to unveil its advocates for Argentina, Brazil and Panama as the word spreads about Bitcoin SV (BSV).

As the fastest growing blockchain ever, Bitcoin SV (BSV) is catching the eye of real-use developers across the globe. This increase in usage has led BSV’s average block sizes, average transaction per block count, and daily transaction count to rival and even surpass BTC. Why? BSV is also the only project that adheres to the original design of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. In short, BSV is Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Association President Jimmy Nguyen comments: “With such tangible growth on the BSV blockchain, the Bitcoin Association is taking a more micro focus for adoption. As it becomes increasingly clear that only BSV scales to real business levels, we are now laser-focused on areas where we can help BSV development more directly in specific geographic regions, in native languages, and offer local representatives.”

Added to the roster are:

BRAZIL:
Esthon Medeiros – Founder & CEO of RioBlockchain
Esthon has been working with Bitcoin and blockchain technology since 2014. His start-up RioBlockchain enables bill payment with Bitcoin, and also plans to add a payment gateway to help merchants get onboarded to accepting Bitcoin. Esthon is the developer of the “Satoshi Shotgun”, which allows testing of high volumes of Bitcoin transactions. Esthon wrote a book about Bitcoin that has been a bestseller on Amazon Brazil. Previously, Esthon had a long career as an IT Professional for IBM, extending 37 years across many areas – which prepared him well for supporting BSV’s vision to massively scale to be the global enterprise blockchain.

ARGENTINA:
Maria Eugenia Lopez – Money Button
Euge is an Experience Designer at Money Button based in Buenos Aires. Previously, she worked as Senior UX designer at several companies where she designed and develop digital products and complex interfaces for different projects. Euge graduated as a Graphic Designer from the Buenos Aires University and is certified in Design Thinking, UX Design and Service Design. When she’s not focused on improving the relationship between people and technology, she serves as faculty at the University of Buenos Aires where she teaches next-gen designers, reads a lot, and loves her dog Mora. Her other goals: Embrace the complexity of emotions in technology and design, win the lottery, and encourage everyone to care deeply about the details of good design.

PANAMA:
Attila Arros – CEO, MatterCloud
In 2019, Attila helped launch TonicPow, a Bitcoin SV monetization platform that emerged after winning 2nd place at the first ever BSV Hackathon finals in Toronto, Canada. Attila is now focused on growing his latest venture: MatterCloud — a Bitcoin SV blockchain platform for developers. Attila graduated from the University of Lethbridge, with a B.Sc. Computer Science in 2008 with a focus on algorithms and database systems. Previously, he worked at TextNow.com as an Engineering Manager from 2011 and oversaw the growth of their systems to millions of users. He founded his first start-up, Sociavore, in 2013 to help restaurants reach more customers. As CTO, he built an online publishing platform that is still in use by hundreds of restaurants today. Attila grew up in Alberta, Canada and recently moved to Panamá, where he enjoys hiking and outdoor adventures.

For more on BSV, you can visit BitcoinSV.com or to get a feel of what BSV can do for your business come to our next CoinGeek conference in London, February 20-21, 2020. If you are interested in buying some BSV, head here.

Bitcoin Association President Jimmy Nguyen to Keynote the IADC’s International Corporate Counsel College in Switzerland October 24

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Rüschlikon, Switzerland – September 25, 2019 – Noted Bitcoin and blockchain expert Jimmy Nguyen, Founding President of the Bitcoin Association, a business organization that seeks to return the Bitcoin and blockchain field to its roots in the Satoshi Vision of the original Bitcoin via Bitcoin SV (BSV), will speak at the International Association of Defense Counsel’s International Corporate Counsel College, an event near Zurich, a global center for banking, finance and cryptocurrency, that brings together in-house counsel and their law firm counterparts for two days of education and discussion on the latest legal issues affecting global companies.

Nguyen will give the event’s keynote speech on the evening of October 24. In addition, on October 25, he will be part of the “Smart Contracts: Everything You Wanted to Know, but Never Dared to Ask” panel that will explore various applications of blockchain and will explain how it is relevant for corporations and their legal counsel. Other panellists include moderator: Ianika Tzankova, of Tzankova Legal Consulting and Tilburg University, in Tilburg, Netherlands; and presenters: Falco Kreis, CMS Hasche Sigle, in Munich, Germany; and Gabriela Lippe-Holst, Co-Founder and Director, Acqupart Holding AG, in Zug, Switzerland. For a taste of Jimmy’s dynamic speaking style please view this video.

Nguyen notes that “Blockchain and smart contracts are game-changing for the legal profession, as well as businesses in all industries. I’m excited to bring what I’ve learned in my two decades of legal experience as a partner at major U.S. law firms, along with my current work in blockchain and cryptocurrency, to this gathering of top corporate lawyers in Europe. This event also gives me the opportunity to further explain how BSV is creating a regulation-friendly ecosystem, unlike so many other cryptocurrency camps, a message which will be supported by major enterprises and their corporate lawyers.

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s leading Bitcoin advocates and a renowned and sought-after public orator, who speaks about Bitcoin and blockchain technology at major events across the world and is also a frequent commentator for online, televised and print media. Jimmy is a global advocate for Bitcoin SV (BSV), the rebirth of the original Bitcoin. Emerging from the contentious November 2018 hard fork of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network, BSV now stands as its own chain and coin – ready to be the world’s new money and global public blockchain for enterprises. Jimmy has served as CEO of nChain Group, the worldwide leader in advisory, research, and development of blockchain technologies, and currently chairs its Strategic Advisory Board.

Jimmy is Founding President of the Bitcoin Association, the first-ever organization dedicated to advance the business of Bitcoin. The association backs Bitcoin SV, and brings together developers, merchants, exchanges, miners and other Bitcoin network participants. Jimmy heads the industry group as it provides global support for Bitcoin SV, as the key to long-term financial success for all participants in the inter-related Bitcoin ecosystem.

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.

Bitcoin SV (BSV) “Quasar” protocol upgrade continues massive blockchain scaling, lifting default block cap to 2GB

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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.

The Humanity Forward Fund Forms to Support 21st Century Solutions to 21st Century Problems, advocates for Andrew Yang’s 2020 Presidential Run

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Donations for First 21 Days Accepted in Bitcoin Only

Los Angeles, CA – Supporters of Andrew Yang, the surprisingly durable outsider candidate for President currently polling at *6th among the Democratic hopefuls (ahead of Booker, Klobuchar, Gillibrand and many others) are starting a Super PAC, the Humanity Forward Fund, stylized as HumanityFWD. To recognize Yang’s standing as the only current candidate known for supporting cryptocurrency, HumanityFWD is exclusively accepting donations via Bitcoin (BTC) for the first 21 days after launching at www.HumanityFWD.org.

HumanityFWD is on a mission to build a new economy, one that puts people first and at the center of our society. HumanityFWD recognizes that 21st Century Problems require 21st Century Solutions. This includes transforming the future of work in a world of rapid advances in automation and technology; tackling the existential threat of climate change and recognizing healthcare and basic economic security as human rights. These challenges are existential and urgent. HumanityFWD seeks to build a new future, based on abundance and American prosperity, by supporting transformational leaders and bold policies that address these challenges.

HumanityFWD will leverage media and messaging to raise awareness on both a national and hyper-local level of Andrew Yang, Universal Basic Income, Human-Centered Capitalism, and the 4th Industrial Revolution.

HumanityFWD is a different kind of Super PAC. In an ideal world, Super PACs wouldn’t exist, but they do. To level the political playing field, HumanityFWD must exist, but won’t compromise the VALUES of Andrew Yang and his supporters. This means HumanityFWD will be 100% transparent, refuse all “dark money” and disclose exactly how the money is spent. It’s simply the FWD thing to do.

For the first 21 days after HumanityFWD’s launch, donations will be taken only in the form of Bitcoin payments, as many in the cryptocurrency community are excited to support Yang’s candidacy. HumanityFWD and OpenNode have partnered on the 21 DAYS OF BITCOIN FOR THE 21st CENTURY fundraising challenge to celebrate the launch of the Humanity Forward Fund. Every fraction of every coin donated will go directly toward helping get Andrew Yang elected President of the United States in 2020.

It’s time to act. It’s not Left, it’s not Right… It’s HumanityFWD.

CoinGeek Seoul Brings Popular Blockchain Conference Back to Asia October 1-2

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Noted Speakers to Include Dr. Craig Wright, Jimmy Nguyen and more

Seoul, Korea – August 2, 2019 – Popular blockchain event CoinGeek is coming to Seoul for a two-day happening at Le Meridien Hotel, a noted property in the heart of Seoul’s upscale Gangnam District on October 1-2. The event will feature discussions on the power of blockchain scaling, what enterprise applications can be built on a massively scaled Bitcoin blockchain, the advantages of a public blockchain over private distributed ledgers, and how government regulation is impacting the space.

Professionals from leading blockchain start-ups, global enterprises, crypto mining groups, investors, and others are coming to learn about exciting developments for Bitcoin SV (BSV), as well as the benefits of massive blockchain scaling for miners, application developers, and enterprises.

To kick off this two-day event, October 1 will feature technical topics about how BSV’s massively-scaled blockchain unlocks technical capabilities and applications not possible on other platforms. On October 2, experts in the industry will showcase how the BSV blockchain can drastically improve the way enterprises do business and create a new digital economy. Attendees will also witness presentations from the three finalists of Bitcoin Association’s 2nd Hackathon; get treated to another intimate conversation with nChain Chief Scientist and creator of Bitcoin Dr. Craig S. Wright (Satoshi Nakamoto) about Bitcoin’s history; and have a blast at another legendary CoinGeek after-party!

Notable speakers include host Bitcoin Association President Jimmy Nguyen, nChain Chief Technology Officer Steve Shadders, and many more to be announced.

The CoinGeek Seoul conference, October 2019, is the latest instalment of CoinGeek’s headline events. Following on from CoinGeek Toronto last May, CoinGeek Week in London November 2019, and the inaugural CoinGeek Conference in May 2018 in Hong Kong, CoinGeek are leading the way in galvanizing the world’s merchants and enterprises to adopt Bitcoin SV (BSV). Bitcoin SV is the only project dedicated to the original design, protocol and “Satoshi Vision” of Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
While the CoinGeek conference is focused on Bitcoin SV, its inclusive environment welcomes speakers and attendees who also work with other blockchain projects, and welcomes all attendees interested in learning about BSV.

With objectives to educate on the importance of massive scaling on the BSV blockchain – such as the benefits of larger block size for enterprise usage and to sustain miner profitability; to promote the value of BSV and why merchants should seek to adopt this new world electronic cash system; and to promote the benefits of BSV’s blockchain for technology developers, the event will feature world-class Bitcoin and blockchain experts as speakers.

Streamanity video service on Bitcoin SV [BSV] secures investment from Calvin Ayre

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Streamanity, the video platform built on Bitcoin SV [BSV], announces an investment from entrepreneur Calvin Ayre, founder of Ayre Group and CoinGeek. Ayre is a key backer of BSV, through his CoinGeek mining, media and investment operations, and expects this investment to further expand the BSV blockchain’s growth to the entertainment, media and content sectors.

Streamanity is a video streaming platform designed to help creators monetize their content directly from viewers. Whereas YouTube generates revenue from advertisers, Streamanity does not clutter the user experience with serving unwanted ads; Streamanity allows video creators to earn BSV directly from viewers who watch their videos. BSV’s massively-scaled blockchain enables micropayments with its fast, low fee transactions. Micropayment capability opens up new business models not possible in the traditional world of credit card payments which charge minimum transaction fees. For example, Streamanity gives content creators the option to charge viewers a single price to view an entire video, or a very small fee by time (for example, pay 1 cent for every 10 seconds of a video viewed). Users can also tip the video creator with micropayments for content they interact with or like.

Named for the “Satoshi Vision” of Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin SV restores the original Bitcoin protocol, keeps it stable, and allows it to massively scale.
BSV has the scaling roadmap necessary for entertainment, media and content services to use the blockchain in innovative ways, as Streamanity is doing. BSV’s blockchain already has a default block cap of 128MB compared to Bitcoin Core [BTC]’s tiny 1MB block cap; with 128MB blocks, BSV can handle 800+ payment transactions per second and also record large data files such as videos, and proves that massive on-chain scaling works on Bitcoin. Furthermore, Bitcoin SV is preparing for gigabyte (1000 MB) and eventually terabyte (1 million MB) blocks to process billions of payment transactions per second and even larger data files, and become the global data ledger for all industries.

CoinGeek founder Calvin Ayre commented: “Content is king, and Streamanity is empowering video content creators to be new kings for the Bitcoin era. Streamanity understands why Bitcoin’s original design, stable protocol, and massively scaled blockchain, now back in the form of Bitcoin SV, can be used to change the online video economy. They add another sector to the diverse ecosystem of applications on BSV.”

Ayre’s investment is part of a broader collaboration between Streamanity and the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. nChain, the global leader in advisory, research, and development of blockchain technologies, will support Streamanity with access to components of its vast intellectual property portfolio. Along with Ayre’s CoinGeek operations, nChain is another key backer of Bitcoin SV.

Jimmy Nguyen, Founding President of the Bitcoin Association (which advances Bitcoin SV’s global business ecosystem) and Chair of nChain’s Strategic Advisory Board, remarked: “Bitcoin is more than just a digital currency; it’s blockchain capabilities will transform every industry. Streamanity demonstrates this, and we look forward to supporting its journey to transform the content marketplace. We invite more companies to study BSV’s micropayment capabilities and build on the only massively scalable blockchain – Bitcoin SV.”

ABOUT BITCOIN ASSOCIATION: 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. 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.

Live now: Paymail eradicates ‘long address’ issue for Bitcoin (BSV)

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Toronto, Canada – June 3, 2019 – One of the most vocal complaints about Bitcoin from users and the old-fashioned financial institutions alike is the unwieldy address format – a long, random string of alphanumeric characters needed to send and receive Bitcoin. Money Button CEO Ryan X Charles, in *collaboration with other members of Bitcoin Association, has solved this issue for the BSV ecosystem with Paymail. The original Bitcoin (BSV) has already proven it can – right now – scale to transaction levels close to VISA and has shown real, everyday utility. BSV is now making everyday use even easier by dispensing with the need for cumbersome Bitcoin addresses; now sending Bitcoin is as easy as sending email:

  • Paymail is a new identity protocol for Bitcoin that removes Bitcoin addresses from the user experience
  • Paymail uses actual names that look exactly the same as email addresses
  • Paymail addresses are much easier to remember, write, type or tap into a phone than Bitcoin addresses
  • Paymail can be used by any exchange, service or application that sends or receives BSV

Plus: Paymail is not just for sending money:

  • Included in the launch of Paymail is an extension for sharing public keys for use in digital signatures and encryption
  • Paymail exists now: Money Button has fully implemented and launched Paymail and the implementation has been tested to be interoperable with the ElectrumSV and HandCash wallets. Centbee wallet also plans to implement it.
  • Paymail is compatible with existing identity systems, particularly Gmail and other popular email services, so that businesses and users have the option to transition seamlessly to use Bitcoin BSV without altering their existing identity system.

Simplicity converts, barriers divert
Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy Nguyen comments: “We congratulate Money Button and other Bitcoin Association members for their collaboration on this outstanding achievement in simplicity. Paymail is another example of how BSV is the Bitcoin ecosystem most focused on global adoption by users and businesses.”

*Paymail was designed and developed collaboratively by nChain, Money Button, Handcash, Centbee, and ElectrumSV for the benefit of the entire Bitcoin SV ecosystem. It emerged from a workshop of Bitcoin Association, the leading global organization for Bitcoin business, which supports BSV. Paymail is available under the Open BSV License and free to use for any application on Bitcoin (BSV). Paymail was announced at the CoinGeek Conference in Toronto, on May 29.

ABOUT BITCOIN ASSOCIATION: 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. 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.