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Craig Wright posts new blog tackling ‘BTC as a security’

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There are a ton of myths and rumors around how BTC was created and released, but it wasn’t until Dr. Craig S. Wright released his latest blog post that we really got to hear the explanation of how BTC was created and released from the individual who is closest to the source— Dr. Wright aka, Satoshi Nakamoto, the author of the BTC whitepaper.

In “BTC as a Security,” Dr. Wright takes a deep dive into the history of BTC as well as BTC’s journey throughout different eras. Dr. Wright walks us through BTC and the different stages it has had in its lifetime as well as the use cases it had at different points in time. Ultimately Dr. Wright explains why BTC is not a security but is a commodity and in making that point, Dr. Wright tells us the things which BTC is often falsely reported to be.

“For example, few people seem to recognise that even the widely promoted concept of ‘censorship resistance’ was never a component of BTC’s design. Such terminology started in 2011, when a journalist and writer associated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) falsely described BTC,” says Dr. Wright

“BTC and any derivative system are in no way cryptocurrency. Whilst it is commonly misreported and factually misrepresented, there is no encryption used in BTC. BTC transactions are transacted, sent, created, and signed without encryption at any point.”

Seeing Dr. Wright explain all of the things that BTC is not begs the question, what is BTC?

“BTC is a commodity that is exchanged under standard contractual trade conditions,” says Dr. Wright. “Of course, as it is also used as money, it can come with different legal protections, but that’s a different issue, for a different post.”

What BTC could have been

As we know, it took nearly a decade for BTC to stay true to Satoshi’s vision for it, and along the way, there were many forks in BTC’s path. But what fewer people know is that the Australian government almost became the owner of BTC’s intellectual property and that BTC’s use on the darknet was not something Satoshi had anticipated.

“Because I was setting up Australian companies designed to build solutions on top of BTC, the financial benefits would be indirectly earned—not through the actions of other individuals, but through my own, and through the actions of the companies I was constructing. I set up multiple companies. Yet, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and I had many disagreements about the nature of what I was doing,” says Dr. Wright.

“In other words, if the ATO had managed to successfully file for my bankruptcy, the assets I personally held in trust would have been available for redistribution. It would have provided ownership of the intellectual property forming the basis of BTC to the Australian government.”

Dr. Wright goes on to talk about BTC being used on darknet marketplaces, and how that use case was in direct contrast to the work that Dr. Wright was doing as a lay pastor at the time. Afterward, Dr. Wright talks about his work in the online gaming world, why BTC development is open-source, and why BTC is not a security.

“So, BTC is not a security because it is firstly a commodity system—defined without an account—and acts, even though digitally, as a fixed, static standard commodity offer. ETH is not. ETH is an account-based system and not a token-based system,” says Dr. Wright.

“Next, there is no requirement to invest money in a common enterprise, because BTC nodes act competitively. The BTC I issued is distributed following my issue in 2009, under a set agreement where no profit ensues. Here, in part, lies one of the major reasons I did not keep any BTC or pre-mine. If I had done so, the result would have been a system where I would have profited from the efforts of a promoter or third party.”

To learn more about how and why BTC was released the way that it was, why BTC is not a security, and why the Australian government almost became the owner of BTC’s intellectual property, read Dr. Craig S. Wright’s latest blog post, “BTC as a Security,” on CraigWright.net.

New to BTC? Check out CoinGeek’s BTC for Beginners section, the ultimate resource guide to learn more about BTC—as originally envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto—and blockchain.

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