{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"BSV.place — Corrections and evidence briefs","home_page_url":"https://bsv.place/","feed_url":"https://bsv.place/feed.json","description":"Material revisions and evidence-first responses to common BSV objections.","language":"en-US","items":[{"id":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-1-1-1","url":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-1-1-1","title":"Public presentation clarified · v1.1.1","content_text":"Removed internal reference codes and workflow labels, excluded material that did not meet the publication gate, grouped questions by topic, and added a clear ownership and potential-bias disclosure.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["revision","Home","Search","Briefs","Question index","About","Privacy"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-1-1-0","url":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-1-1-0","title":"Evidence library expanded · v1.1.0","content_text":"Added individual pages for common questions, clearer source links, explicit limits, and an explanation of what evidence could change each answer.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["revision","Brief library","Resources","Method"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-1-0-1","url":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-1-0-1","title":"Implementation links corrected · v1.0.1","content_text":"Updated software links to point to the current TypeScript repository and clearly labeled older repositories where they remain useful as historical references.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["revision","Builder questions","Resources"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-1-0-0","url":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-1-0-0","title":"BSV.place launched · v1.0.0","content_text":"Published the initial evidence desk with eight briefs, a source-review method, and a primary-source resource desk.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["launch","site","methodology","resources"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-public-corrections","url":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-public-corrections","title":"Public corrections and revision history opened","content_text":"Added correction and missing-question forms, a public revision log, and a clear promise to record material factual changes.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["method","Method","Corrections"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-independent-hosting","url":"https://bsv.place/updates/#2026-07-11-independent-hosting","title":"Independent static publication established","content_text":"BSV.place now uses static external hosting, a protected custom domain, and enforced HTTPS to keep the reference available independently of application infrastructure.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["publication","Publication integrity","Availability"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/craig-wright-and-satoshi/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/craig-wright-and-satoshi/","title":"Does the BSV case depend on Craig Wright being Satoshi?","content_text":"No identity claim is required. Software, network rules, economics, and actual use should stand or fall on inspectable evidence of their own.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","History & reputation"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/institutional-capture-and-independence/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/institutional-capture-and-independence/","title":"Is BSV captured by a small set of institutions and patrons?","content_text":"Concentration is a legitimate dependency question. It should be answered with an inventory of authority, funding, code ownership, operators, and replaceability—not a decentralization slogan.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Institutions"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/scam-cult-and-grift-labels/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/scam-cult-and-grift-labels/","title":"How should a serious person respond to the “scam” or “cult” label?","content_text":"A label is not a technical analysis, but it often points to a valid proof problem: were people sold allegiance and price stories instead of working utility and disclosed risk?","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Trust & reputation"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/users-adoption-and-use-cases/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/users-adoption-and-use-cases/","title":"Where are the users?","content_text":"The public adoption proof remains thinner than the technical inventory. That gap should be measured, not covered with anecdotes or raw transaction counts.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Adoption"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/economically-necessary-use-cases/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/economically-necessary-use-cases/","title":"Does anything economically need BSV?","content_text":"Correct: a cheap transaction is a component, not a product. The case must be a workflow where public proofs, tiny payments, or portable signed records change user value or unit economics.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Product fit"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/builder-reputational-risk/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/builder-reputational-risk/","title":"Does building on BSV create unacceptable reputational risk?","content_text":"That is a real commercial risk affecting hiring, partnerships, fundraising, and distribution. It can be reduced by clean-room product framing and evidence, not denied.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Builder strategy"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/is-bsv-really-bitcoin/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/is-bsv-really-bitcoin/","title":"Is BSV “really Bitcoin”?","content_text":"Chain identity is partly historical and social. For a product decision, compare implemented design goals and current rules instead of demanding agreement on a purity title.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Protocol identity"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/satoshis-vision-claim/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/satoshis-vision-claim/","title":"Is “Satoshi's Vision” a defensible description?","content_text":"The phrase is defensible only when defined narrowly as a set of design goals. It should not imply that every current governance choice appears in, or is compelled by, the whitepaper.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Protocol identity"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/proof-of-work-and-honest-nodes/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/proof-of-work-and-honest-nodes/","title":"Can nodes reject a longer proof-of-work chain and still claim Bitcoin rules?","content_text":"This is a serious protocol-governance dispute. Proof of work coordinates valid history; the hard questions are who defines validity, what policies can change it, and how operators learn the rules.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Consensus & security"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/governance-dar-and-network-rules/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/governance-dar-and-network-rules/","title":"Can BSV freeze or reassign coins?","content_text":"The published governance surface is real and consequential. It should be evaluated as a disputed-property recovery tradeoff—not denied or confused with ordinary wallet authority.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Asset recovery"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/bsv-association-governance/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/bsv-association-governance/","title":"Does the BSV Association function as a central authority?","content_text":"BSV does include explicit institutional governance. The defensible question is whether its scope, checks, transparency, and fit are acceptable for a use case.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Governance"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/liquidity-delisting-and-operational-risk/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/liquidity-delisting-and-operational-risk/","title":"Do delistings and weak liquidity make BSV unusable?","content_text":"Liquidity and service access are real operational dependencies for some products and nearly incidental for others. They must be tested at decision time.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Market access"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/price-and-flippening-contamination/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/price-and-flippening-contamination/","title":"Do price and “flippening” narratives invalidate the builder case?","content_text":"They do not invalidate a working product, but they contaminate its credibility and attract the wrong success metrics.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Messaging discipline"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/tribalism-and-ally-tone/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/tribalism-and-ally-tone/","title":"Why does BSV discourse so often feel tribal or abusive?","content_text":"Factional tone is a real credibility and distribution cost. Friendly hostility does not become helpful because it comes from an ally.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Messaging discipline"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/show-working-product-proof/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/show-working-product-proof/","title":"What can a skeptical person actually try?","content_text":"That request is an opportunity. Every capability claim should lead to a bounded, reproducible path with expected output and honest failure handling.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Product proof"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/onboarding-and-acronym-overload/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/onboarding-and-acronym-overload/","title":"Is BSV too complicated to build on?","content_text":"The cognitive-load objection is valid. A newcomer should start with one user outcome and a high-level API, then reveal lower layers only when they solve a real problem.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Developer experience"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/brc100-interoperability-and-portability/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/brc100-interoperability-and-portability/","title":"Is BRC-100 real interoperability or one vendor's interface?","content_text":"That is the right proof standard. BRC-100 is a substantial public interface; interoperability depends on conforming independent implementations and observable compatibility.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Wallets & standards"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/user-data-and-service-portability/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/user-data-and-service-portability/","title":"Can users actually leave a wallet, app, or overlay?","content_text":"Correct. Portability is an operational property demonstrated by export, import, discovery, replacement, and recovery—not inferred from public keys or blockchain storage.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Portability"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/scale-fees-and-centralization/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/scale-fees-and-centralization/","title":"Is BSV scaling real, or a datacenter marketing claim?","content_text":"BSV has a coherent large-block architecture and public Teranode source. Capacity, independent reproduction, production behavior, demand, and operator diversity remain separate claims.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Scale & economics"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/security-hashpower-and-reorgs/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/security-hashpower-and-reorgs/","title":"What do hashpower and reorganization history mean for BSV security?","content_text":"Hash economics, transaction validity, confirmation policy, topology, monitoring, and governance response are separate security layers. None should be hand-waved.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Security"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/ecosystem-funding-and-project-failures/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/ecosystem-funding-and-project-failures/","title":"Why have so many funded BSV projects disappeared?","content_text":"Failed projects are normal; missing accountability is not. Judge a current ecosystem by maintained products, user outcomes, and transparent status—not by cumulative launch announcements.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Ecosystem accountability"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/cheap-database-data-and-spam/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/cheap-database-data-and-spam/","title":"Is BSV just a cheap database for spam?","content_text":"This is a genuine design-priority disagreement. Cheap public blockspace can support proofs and signed records while imposing permanent-resource and privacy costs.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Design tradeoffs"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/wallet-authority-identity-and-data/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/wallet-authority-identity-and-data/","title":"Can miners, the chain, or an app sign as me or read my private data?","content_text":"These are different authority layers. Network recovery can affect accepted coin ownership without automatically granting a user's signing keys, decryption keys, certificates, or app permissions.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Wallet trust model"]},{"id":"https://bsv.place/answers/babbage-and-bsv-rail-dependency/","url":"https://bsv.place/answers/babbage-and-bsv-rail-dependency/","title":"Does Project Babbage depend too heavily on the BSV rail?","content_text":"BSV is the current rail, so failure is a material dependency. Portability claims must distinguish reusable interfaces and user data from BSV-specific transactions, proofs, licenses, and services.","date_published":"2026-07-11T12:00:00Z","tags":["evidence brief","Architecture & contingency"]}]}