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Podcaster and fitness influencer Gavin Mehl recently interviewed CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. They talked about how Bitcoin can help preserve history and what’s going to happen in the COPA v Wright trial in January 2024. width=”562″ height=”315″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”> Wuckert’s latest article and the importance of history Wuckert has been releasing deep, thought-provoking articles on CoinGeek for a while. One of his recent ones, dated November 14, was related to how Bitcoin can help us create a verifiable record of what has happened historically. In ‘History is written by those who hang the heroes,’ Wuckert explores the difficulty of verifying the narratives presented as history. From William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in the quest for freedom in Scotland to the type of character George Washington really was, to unexplored decades of American history and even Bitcoin itself, Wuckert makes the case that a lot of what we believe are carefully woven narratives and partial myths. We’d all be a lot better off if we could verify the actual truth on the blockchain—something the BSV blockchain makes possible. Giving an example of how blockchain technology could help us verify the truth, Wuckert looks to his own work as Chief Bitcoin Historian at CoinGeek. Characters like Gavin Andresen, who he describes as a “good man,” and Mike Hearn, who personally talked with Satoshi early on, have been either maligned or conveniently forgotten in many ways. Yet, what they had to say and what they did are important points in the history of Bitcoin. For example, Hearn tried to make Bitcoin XT work with an adjustable block size and was so heavily DDoS’d that a whole ISP in England went down. Wuckert points out that, technically, this was an act of terrorism, yet those researching the history of Bitcoin today will have to dig deep to find out how it…

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