Josh
"Secure Sovereign"
Bitcoin Builder & Governance Researcher | Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP)
// About
Bitcoin holder since 2010. Founder of The Bitcoin Commons, a ground-up alternative Bitcoin node implementation written in Rust, built from a formal mathematical specification. Author of quantitative Bitcoin governance research and demographic analysis. Based at Strategy₿ Hub in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
// Support
Independent funding
Fund the spec, the node, and the research
This work stays independent of the institutional grant stack. If the protocol layer should be as decentralized as the network, fund it that way.
// Expertise
- Bitcoin Consensus Engineering
- Formal Consensus Specification and Verification
- Bitcoin Governance Research
- Bitcoin Security & Self-Custody
// Disclosures
For transparency, I disclose the following affiliations and holdings:
Bitcoin Node
Bitcoin Mining Pool
Bitcoin Custody Solution
Open Bitcoin Work Funding
Bitcoin Podcast
Bitcoin Services
Socratic Seminars
Bitcoin
Holding since 2010
// Featured
Why Bitcoin cannot be governed like an open source project. A dictator is a good way to ship a kernel. It is a bad way to write Bitcoin's node software.
What has to happen, and in what order: why miner signaling fails without economic nodes, why the spec track and the pool track have to run together, and what floor, mid, and ceiling look like through the 2028 halving.
A defense of toxic maximalism: collaborative capture and uncontested Taproot, retail warnings that got discounted, irreversible bugs, and why fraud-calling stays while internal fights need a spec and an unbundled stack.