CoinGeek
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BSV-focused news site and events brand founded by Calvin Ayre.
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The wiki's angle: CoinGeek is the media arm of the BSV side of the 2018 split, and several voices the show has interviewed about that split wrote for it.[1][3]
Contents
About
CoinGeek's About page says it was “Founded by visionary billionaire Calvin Ayre” and describes its focus on the BSV blockchain[1]. Its team page lists Kurt Wuckert Jr. among its authors[1]. See Calvin Ayre[2].
On the show
Vlad introduced Kurt Wuckert Jr. on S17 E39 as “a journalist for CoinGeek”[3]. Kurt called Calvin Ayre BSV's most significant player[4]. The Takeover BSV feature covers the Bitcoin SV fork that CoinGeek supported[5].
References
- primaryCoinGeek, “About Us” (read 13 Nov 2026) [archived]
- secondaryWikipedia, “Calvin Ayre” [archived]
- episodeS17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr. as CoinGeek journalist and GorillaPool operator▶ listen at 1:52timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr. on Calvin Ayre as BSV's most significant player▶ listen at 1:29:14timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- btkBitcoin SV: Big Blocks All the Way (BTCTKVR: Forks!) [archived]
Related
Calvin Ayre
Bodog founder and the main financial backer of the BSV camp: linked to Craig Wright from 2016, owner of CoinGe
Bitcoin SV
The nChain-backed split from Bitcoin Cash in the November 2018 “hash war”.
nChain
Craig Wright's company in the Bitcoin SV split: it announced the Bitcoin SV client in August 2018, and the Ayr
Kurt Wuckert Jr.
Self-described Bitcoin historian on the BSV side, CoinGeek author and GorillaPool operator, interviewed on Bit
Craig Wright
Australian computer scientist who claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto; the UK High Court ruled in 2024 that he is n