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Kyle Torpey

Kyle Torpey
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Kyle Torpey is a freelance writer and researcher who has been following Bitcoin since 2011. His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard, Business Insider, NASDAQ, New York Post,The Next Web, American Banker, and other media outlets. You can view all his work at kyletorpey.com or sign up for his personal newsletter.

Bitcoin Doesn’t Waste Electricity, It’s Used for Security

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A common criticism often thrown at Bitcoin is its heavy use of computing power, which in turn requires a large amount of energy. Some critics of the system believe...

Should Bitcoin Have Regularly Scheduled Hard Forks?

TECHNICAL Kyle Torpey -
Hard forks are a rather contentious issue in Bitcoin. The controversy surrounding hard forks can be seen most prominently in the context of Bitcoin XT’s implementation of BIP 101....

Notable Bitcoin Core Contributors Now Open to Increasing Block-size Limit to 2 or 4MB

TECHNICAL Kyle Torpey -
Although some individuals in the Bitcoin community believed that nothing would come out of the recent Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Montreal, it seems that some progress was made in...

Adam Back on the Risks of Benevolent Dictatorship in Bitcoin

CULTURE Kyle Torpey -
The idea of a benevolent dictator for Bitcoin has become a topic of conversation throughout the community lately due to Mike Hearn’s role as the final authority for changes in Bitcoin XT. Although...

Adam Back on Three Forms of Centralization That Have Crept Into Bitcoin

TECHNICAL Kyle Torpey -
At the crux of the block-size limit debate in Bitcoin is an argument between scaling and securing the network. Although raising the block-size limit would allow more transactions to be processed...

Gavin Andresen on the Block Size: “It’s Hard to Find a Signal above All the Noise”

TECHNICAL Kyle Torpey -
Bitcoin XT Developer and Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen was interviewed on Epicenter Bitcoin earlier this week, with the conversation mainly revolving around concepts related to Bitcoin governance. Development of Bitcoin Core has somewhat slowed recently due to...

Andreas Antonopoulos Thinks Bitcoin ATMs Need to Be Completely Redesigned

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Mastering Bitcoin Author Andreas Antonopoulos recently gave at talk at Harvard’s i-lab, spending much of his time in front of a small audience describing the various issues with Bitcoin as a brand. He noted many...

Gem CEO: Bitcoin Regulations are Trying to Fit a Round Peg in a Square Hole

BUSINESS Kyle Torpey -
Regulation has always been a contentious issue in the Bitcoin industry. Some members of the community wish to avoid any regulation at all costs, while others want to work...

Gem CEO: Bitcoin Regulations are Trying to Fit a Round Peg in a Square Hole

BUSINESS Kyle Torpey -
Regulation has always been a contentious issue in the Bitcoin industry. Some members of the community wish to avoid any regulation at all costs, while others want to work...

Erik Voorhees: The Separation of Money and State is the New Separation of Church and State

CULTURE Kyle Torpey -
Shapeshift.io CEO Erik Voorhees was interviewed by Decentralized Applications Fund Managing Director David Johnston at the Texas Bitcoin Conference in late March, and the topics covered in the fireside chat involved everything from Bitcoin regulation to Voorhees’ evolving stance on...
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