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Articles by Alex Speirs
Alex Speirs, Partner at Muckle, law firm in Newcastle upon Tyne
11 years qualified Active on LinkedIn Alex has been recognised in the Legal 500 UK for several years now as a ‘Rising Star UK’ in the field of commercial litigation in Newcastle. An experienced litigator, Alex deals with a broad range of commercial disputes for corporate clients and individuals in relation to a variety of contentious issues including shareholder disputes, professional negligence, data protection, intellectual property and reputational issues and general commercial contracts.
Advisory and FAQs: Raising the hard cap setting in Bitcoin SV Node software in anticipation of multi-gigabyte blocks
By Alex Speirs Published: August 11, 2021 The first week of August 2021 has been a record-breaking one for the Bitcoin SV (BSV) network, with a succession of three 1 gigabyte (GB) blocks mined on August 6 and 7. This shows Bitcoin can scale as always intended and that BSV can power enterprise, high volume consumer and government applications.
Statement on August 2021 block re-organisation attack on the Bitcoin SV network
By Alex Speirs Published: August 4, 2021 The Bitcoin SV network is currently enduring an ongoing series of block re-organisation attacks by a malicious actor attempting to illegally double-spend BSV coins. Bitcoin Association believes that this is the same attacker that previously initiated block re-organisation attacks against the BSV network on June 24 and July 1, 6 & 9, 2021.
FAQs: July 2021 block withholding/re-organisation attack on the Bitcoin SV network
By Alex Speirs Published: July 15, 2021 Last updated: July, 15 – 12pm (UKT) In response to the block withholding/re-organisation attack on the Bitcoin SV network, Bitcoin Association has prepared answers to the most frequently asked questions that we and our representatives are receiving. What has happened?
Bitcoin Association statement: Zero-tolerance for illegal attacks on the Bitcoin SV network
By Alex Speirs Published: July 8, 2021 Bitcoin Association (for BSV) is the Switzerland-based global industry organisation that supports the Bitcoin SV blockchain, one of the main chains of Bitcoin and the one which follows the original Bitcoin design. The Association provide the Bitcoin SV Node software and other infrastructure tools for the network. Bitcoin Association and the BSV ecosystem have zero tolerance for illegal activity.
Building the Bitcoin SV development community with Robin Kohze
By Alex Speirs Published: April 14, 2021 Blockhain start-up Vaionex is leading the charge to restore the old Bitcoin SV developers site to act as a comprehensive landing page for the Bitcoin SV developer community. We sat down with Kohze to find out why the time was right to reinvigorate this project and what he hopes to achieve as a result.
BSV Update: February 2021
BSV Update and Notes from the Founding President: February 2021 Greetings to everyone in the Bitcoin SV Community! They say that Bitcoin never sleeps, and with the start to 2021 we’ve had, they might want to start adding ‘Association’ to the end of that phrase! Already we’ve finished the second month of the year, with a long list of actions and achievements for the Association fast falling into place.
Bitcoin Association statement concerning legal action by Dr Craig S. Wright/Tulip Trading Ltd.
By Alex Speirs Published: February 26, 2021 Our Bitcoin Association is the Switzerland-based global industry organisation that supports Bitcoin SV (BSV), one of the main chains of Bitcoin. On February 24, 2021, we received a ‘letter before action’ from counsel for Tulip Trading Ltd. (a company associated with Dr Craig S.
Blockchain Policy Matters: U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry
In the first episode of the new Blockchain Policy Matters online video series, Bitcoin Association sat down with U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC 10), Republican Leader of the House Financial Services Committee, to discuss the present political landscape for digital currencies, his personal vision for the future of finance, as well as how he sees blockchain technology as a positive force for financial inclusion.
Bitcoin Association statement on OKCoin
By Alex Speirs Published: February 19, 2021 Bitcoin Association is aware of the announcement made today by OKCoin to suspend trading of BSV and several other digital currencies on their exchange. In recent weeks, Bitcoin Association opened a dialogue and engaged with representatives from OKCoin, as we sought to better understand their concerns and stance as it relates to Bitcoin SV.
Bringing Blackjack On-Chain
BitBoss has broken new ground in blockchain gaming with the release of the first blackjack game to run entirely on-chain. We spoke with BitBoss CEO Matt Dickson and CTO Alex Shore about the process of getting blackjack on-chain and what it means for the future of iGaming. Any competitive casino game must be able to be run in real-time.
Three GC perspectives on change
Gloria Sánchez Soriano, head of transformation – legal department, Santander When our group general counsel (GC), Óscar García Maceiras, joined two years ago, he came with the idea of transforming the legal department. But Santander as a business is also in a huge process of transformation. Maceiras had a concern that we in our legal department in the market – and in many other legal departments – were working the same way as 100 years ago.
Dominic Grieve MP: No great advantage - Legal Business
Alex Speirs: Now less than a year out from the UK’s scheduled withdrawal from the EU, how would you characterise the current state of negotiations? Dominic Grieve: They’re not going well at all. We are not talking the same language.
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