As author William Gibson memorably observed, "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed". Today's clutch of stories attest to that. Blockchain air taxis, dual forks, and digitally scarce pillow cases may not be the future we dreamed of, but it's the one we've gotten. Welcome to the weekend edition of Bitcoin in Brief.

From Bitcoin Private to Bitcoin Prime

Bitcoin Private developer Rhett Creighton is Bitcoin Private no more. He's been booted out of the project, which controversially forked from Bitcoin and Zclassic earlier this year, for tweeting that it should be possible to do the same with Bitcoin and Primecoin. Read like that, it sounds like Rhett was ejected simply for expressing an opinion, but the statement triggered Jackson Palmer's bullshit detector, prompting him to do some digging.