Kurt Wuckert Jr.
Self-described Bitcoin historian on the BSV side, CoinGeek author and GorillaPool operator, interviewed on Bitcoin Takeover S17 E39.
The wiki's angle: Kurt took the BSV branch in 2018 and still argues it on the record, and his account of an OP_RETURN prototype breaking around 2014 links the old data-carrier fight to the 2025 one.[8][5]
Background
Introducing Kurt Wuckert Jr. on S17 E39, Vlad described him as possibly one of the first people to call themselves a Bitcoin historian, who ran a print shop in Chicago and was offered payment in Bitcoin in 2012[1]. Kurt said he had hosted a Bitcoin.com-sponsored Bitcoin Cash meetup in Chicago[2]. He said he was “officially representing CoinGeek” at the 2022 Oslo trial between Hodlonaut and Craig Wright[3]. CoinGeek's team page lists him as an author[4].
BSV and GorillaPool
Vlad introduced him as “a journalist for CoinGeek” running Gorilla Pool, “a mining pool for SHA-256”[5]. Kurt described GorillaPool as “completely independent”, funded by him and two partners to mine for about five years[6]. His accounts of the 2018 split are covered in the hash war and Bitcoin SV[7].
Data carrier
The Takeover BLAKE2b feature records Kurt saying that around 2014 his OP_RETURN tokenization prototype stopped working when Core cut the data carrier size[8]. That connects him to the 2025 OP_RETURN fight[8].
On Bitcoin Takeover
Episodes with Kurt Wuckert Jr. as a guest, from the show's feed (bitcoin-takeover.com/audio/feed.xml).
References
- episodeS17 E39: Vlad introduces Kurt Wuckert Jr.▶ listen at 1:19timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr. on hosting the Bitcoin Cash meetup in Chicago▶ listen at 1:04:20timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr. on covering the Oslo Hodlonaut v Wright trial for CoinGeek▶ listen at 4:06timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- primaryCoinGeek, “About Us” (read 13 Nov 2026) [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 GorillaPool▶ listen at 1:28:32timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr. on the 2018 hash war▶ listen at 1:09:48timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- btkBitcoin BLAKE2b: The Fork That Fired the Miners (BTCTKVR: Forks!) [archived]
- episodeS17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr. on BSV & Big Block Bitcoin [archived]