# Bismuth — Interview & Coverage Source Catalog

*A working bibliography of published interviews, profiles and reviews of the Bismuth blockchain (BIS)*

*Compiled June 2026 · assembled for press outreach and source assessment*

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This is a reference index, not a reproduction. Each entry lists where the piece lives, who made it, and a one-line note on what it covers. Full texts remain at the linked URLs; where a live page may have changed or vanished, retrieve the snapshot via the Wayback Machine by prefixing the URL with https://web.archive.org/web/*/ (paste the original link into archive.org's search box). The bismuth.cz and bismuthplatform.com domains are both heavily archived there.

Source-type key: PRIMARY = subject speaking about itself (interviews, the foundation's own posts) — useful for facts, not for establishing notability. SPS = self-published platform (Medium, Steemit, publish0x) — generally not treated as a reliable independent source. PEER-REVIEW = academic, but co-authored by the project lead (not independent). None of the items below are independent secondary coverage in the Wikipedia sense — that is the gap. They are, however, exactly the body of material a journalist would want to see to know the story is real.

## 1. Interviews with the founder / core team

| Title | By / Where | Date | Type | What it is |
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| Cryptointerview with the lead developer of Bismuth | [Panama_TJ / xamanap — Medium](https://xamanap.medium.com/cryptointerview-with-tezosevangelist-b45cbb72e414) | 29 Sep 2017 | PRIMARY / SPS | The original Q&A; source of the “blockchain Lego” framing. Earliest interview. (Author renamed; old @Panama_TJ link may 404.) |
| Bismuth Developer Interview — HCLivess (The First Python Crypto Currency) | [aetsen — Steemit](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@aetsen/bismuth-developer-interview-hclivess) | 7 Mar 2018 | PRIMARY / SPS | Technical Q&A: mempool design, throughput, sidechains, dev background. |
| Bismuth — the First Python Blockchain (An Interview with Jan) | [cblackbeard — Medium](https://medium.com/@cblackbeard/bismuth-the-first-python-blockchain-6e2fb0b53a4f) | 16 Jan 2019 | PRIMARY / SPS | Team, why-Python, use cases, fund/treasury disclosure. |
| teamtalks #32 — bismuth | [Jens Ibsen (flashygordy) — Medium](https://medium.com/@flashygordy/teamtalks-32-bismuth-82d56f9b37c) | Aug 2019 | PRIMARY / SPS | Long Q&A on emission schedule, hypernodes, supply, philosophy. |
| Bismuth Core Developer Interview | [aetsen — PeakD (backup: Steemit)](https://peakd.com/@aetsen/bismuth-developer-interview-hclivess) | 7 Mar 2018 | PRIMARY / SPS | On external indexing for open-field data, token/alias handling. (Same interview as the aetsen Steemit post.) |
| The Bismuth Plugin System | [bitsignal — Steemit / PeakD](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@bitsignal/the-bismuth-plugin-system) | 16 Jul 2018 | PRIMARY / SPS | Dev-oriented talk on Bismuth's plugin (Crystal) system and its applications. |
| Dragginator.com NFT Interview | [bitsignal (EggdraSyl) — Steemit / PeakD](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@bitsignal/developer-interview-draggon-s-eggs-soccer-cup) | 11 Jul 2018 | PRIMARY / SPS | Interview with the dev of Dragginator, an NFT-style game on Bismuth (early non-ETH NFT). |

## 2. BisBabble — the community interview series

*Bismuth's own interview series (originally on hypernodes.bismuth.live, now mirrored on bismuthcoin.org/blog). Each profiles a community contributor. Primary source — good colour for a feature, not independent.*

| Title | By / Where | Date | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BisBabble — Aravind | [bismuthcoin.org / hypernodes.bismuth.live](https://bismuthcoin.org/blog/2019-12-18-interview) | 18 Dec 2019 | PRIMARY | Issue 1. New contributor — background and dev work. |
| BisBabble — Endogen (Telegram bot ‘Bauer’) | [hypernodes.bismuth.live](https://hypernodes.bismuth.live/?p=1086) | 18 Jan 2020 | PRIMARY | Issue 2. German engineer behind the Bauer Telegram bot. |
| BisBabble — ShadowCrypto (Pawer bot) | [hypernodes.bismuth.live](https://hypernodes.bismuth.live/?p=1110) | 7 Feb 2020 | PRIMARY | Contributor to the Pawer Discord bot. |
| BisBabble — Nyzblossom (wBismuth dev) | [bismuthcoin.org/blog](https://bismuthcoin.org/blog/2020-11-04-interview) | 4 Nov 2020 | PRIMARY | Q&A with the wBismuth wallet developer. |

## 3. Profiles, reviews & spotlights

| Title | By / Where | Date | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bismuth — No ICO, No Premine and First Python Coin! | [kingscrown — Steemit](https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@kingscrown/bismuth-no-ico-no-premine-and-first-python-coin) | 5 Oct 2017 | SPS | Early write-up + embedded interview; fair-launch framing. |
| Crypto Spotlight: Bismuth (BIS) | [coinstats — Steemit](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@coinstats/crypto-spotlight-bismuth-bis) | 12 Apr 2018 | SPS | Profile contrasting Bismuth with ERC-20 hype (CryptoKitties example). |
| Bismuth [$BIS] — Valuable project. Hidden gem. | [Joseph L. / bitcointrading — Medium](https://medium.com/@bitcointrading/bismuth-bis-cryptocurrency-valuable-project-hidden-gem-576c90152cb0) | May 2018 | SPS | Investor-oriented profile; quotes the cryptointerview. |
| Bismuth — Project Review | [Thant11 — Medium](https://medium.com/@thant11/bismuth-project-review-fdaa4976bd33) | 2018 | SPS | Independent-ish community review of the platform. |
| 3 Promising Altcoins to Invest in for 2018 (A Thoreau Analysis) | [altcointhoreau — Medium](https://medium.com/@altcointhoreau/3-promising-altcoins-to-invest-in-for-2018-a-thoreau-analysis-f6cc95cd83) | 2018 | SPS | Bismuth featured as one of three picks. |
| Bismuth: A Dapp Building Platform that doesn’t Bite | [CryptoShib](https://cryptoshib.com/bismuth-dapp-building-platform/) | 12 Apr 2020 | SPS | On Python dApp accessibility. |
| Coin Report — Bismuth | [Altcoin Trader’s Handbook](https://altcointradershandbook.com/coin-report-bismuth/) | 7 Dec 2018 | SPS | Structured ‘coin report’ on the first Python blockchain. |
| Bismuth (BIS) — A Sleeping Legend that Should be Remembered | [publish0x — crypto-bits](https://publish0x.com/crypto-bits/bismuthbis-a-sleeping-legend-that-should-be-remembered-xxvlvol) | 5 Mar 2024 | SPS | Retrospective appreciation piece, ~7 years in. |

## 4. Academic & patent record (not interviews — included for the press kit)

| Title | By / Where | Date | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonlinear Feedback Control and Stability Analysis of a Proof-of-Work Blockchain | [G. Hovland & J. Kučera — Modeling, Identification and Control (MIC) 38(4)](https://mic-journal.no/ABS/MIC-2017-4-1.asp) | 2017 | PEER-REVIEW | Difficulty controller as a feedback-control problem. doi:10.4173/mic.2017.4.1 |
| Tail Removal Block Validation: Implementation and Analysis | [G. Hovland & J. Kučera — MIC](https://mic-journal.no/ABS/MIC-2018-3-1.asp) | 2018 | PEER-REVIEW | Block-validation method, simulation and analysis. |
| Optimizing Performance of a Blockchain (US 10,880,073) | [Hwang et al. — IBM (USPTO)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US10880073B2/en) | granted 2020 | PATENT | IBM patent; Bismuth/Hovland work reportedly listed in prior-art citations (verify the ‘Non-patent citations’ section yourself). |

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How to recover anything dead: open web.archive.org, paste the original URL, pick a snapshot. For a whole-domain sweep, browse web.archive.org/web/*/bismuth.cz/* and /bismuthplatform.com/*. The Bismuth Foundation's own ‘Awesome-Bismuth’ repo (github.com/bismuthfoundation/Awesome-Bismuth, Articles.md) is the most complete living list and is worth checking for anything added after this catalog. This document indexes what was findable as of June 2026 and is not guaranteed exhaustive.