Blockchain & BSV

Essays on money that crosses borders, and on who gets to decide whether it may. Why well over a billion adults have no bank account. Why you cannot buy your sister a pair of shoes on the other side of the planet without three companies agreeing to it. Why a name is an address, not a brand. Why the price of a coin should come from a crate of milk rather than a trading floor.

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Imagine the Bitcoin movie lands. It is well made, it is sympathetic to the original protocol, and for a few weeks a lot of people who never cared about any of this go looking. They type "BSV" into a search engine, an exchange, a wallet, YouTube.

Now imagine that three months earlier we renamed the chain to "Bitcoin Protocol", ticker BCP.

Internet connections were once too slow for people to stream movies from Netflix. Instead, they borrowed videotapes from Blockbuster to watch at home. In September 2000, after months of trying to set up a meeting, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and CFO Barry McCarthy finally got together with Blockbuster CEO John Antioco. Netflix was in trouble. It was on track to lose $50 million that year while tens of other internet-based companies just went bust in the dot-com crash.