The crypto space is where the idealism of radical socioeconomic theories from the last 150 years can find real application, because ideals such as decentralisation and egalitarianism and democratic rights can be embedded into code and protocols that are resistant to the corruption of human agency.
13 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Mammal
It really ought to have happened a decade ago, but better late than never. Now at long last it is painless to flip Bitcoin from your phone to any other number in the universe thanks to the Flip App. Not only Bitcoin but Doge and Dingocoin as well. Al...
26 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Mammal
NFTBooks isn’t the only NFT blockchain book publishing platform out there; it doesn’t have the catchiest name, and the ticker is a bit of a mouthful, but it is functional and accessible with an innovative, hyper-economic transaction model. And the...
20 Jan 2024 9 minute read 1 comment Mammal
in the beginning We ought to remind ourselves now and again in all our pomp and glory that we are not gods and that behind our resourceful hominid forebears stands the trusty canid. Because when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens and canids buried their ri...
29 Dec 2023 6 minute read 5 comments Mammal
touching the void Just as nature abhors a vacuum, so too does human nature whenever a perceptual void frustrates the need to discover the whereabouts and condition of something valuable. And into that dark chasm can rush all sorts of wild speculati...
31 Oct 2022 7 minute read 1 comment Mammal
Helen Duncan Helen Duncan was one of the most notorious and divisive figures in the chequered history of Spiritualism. A reputation helped in part by her prosecution in 1944 under the archaic Witchcraft Act of 1735 for pretending to conjure spirits...
16 Apr 2022 2 minute read 6 comments Mammal
For Presearch to compete with Google, it must not only innovate but emulate its principle competitor and improve upon the Google model in every sense. Decentralised Search Engine Presearch is steadily working toward a fully decentralised search engin...
11 Apr 2022 3 minute read 2 comments Mammal
As we speak, the Northern Hemisphere is quietly preparing for nuclear annihilation—and as recent events have demonstrated, the end of the Cold War hasn’t put paid to that. Governments may not be bothering with public information broadcasts these days...
9 Jan 2022 7 minute read 4 comments Mammal
the mother of invention According to Greek myth, only the renowned inventor Daedalus could crack the devilishly difficult puzzle set by King Minos of Crete: how to pass a thread through a Triton shell. His ingenious answer was to drill a small ho...
8 Dec 2021 8 minute read 0 comments Mammal
Part V: … And the law won. Customers weren’t particularly put off by the asset seizures in late 2005 (see Part IV) because during the year immediately following the forfeiture, e-gold bounced back with a record volume of transactions. Nevertheless, a...
9 Oct 2021 4 minute read 6 comments Mammal
Part IV: I fought the law. Actually, Gold & Silver Reserves Inc.—the parent company of e-gold—although not partners as such, enjoyed a pretty solid working relationship with national and international law enforcement agencies (see Part III). With the...
