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16 Aug 2019 4 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman
It’s hard to argue that blockchain technology does not use a significant amount of power. It does. However, “a lot” is a relative term, and the amount of fanfare over blockchain’s power consumption is misplaced. Admittedly, a lot of this informatio...
26 Jul 2019 3 minute read 1 comment Daniel Goldman
Are personal rights a myth? A fairytale? Is it true that you have no true freedom, that you only have temporary privileges that you enjoy until someone tells you to stop enjoying them? This is definitely a philosophy that is prevalent among the supp...
24 Jul 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman
It has been claimed that if not for Russian meddling, Trump would not have been elected President. However, there are numerous issues with this claim. be politically active. So young people are the ones who are more likely to be influenced by socia...
23 Jul 2019 5 minute read 18 comments Daniel Goldman
I’m honestly tired of seeing all of these articles supporting government run universal basic income. It’s possible to have UBI that works, but government isn’t the solution. It’s really not the solution to any problem, and as I’ve explained in ma...
18 Jul 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman
What is government? It’s not pretty. That’s for sure. I’ve been writing about politics for the last 15 years or so. I’ve thought a lot about government, and have reached the conclusion that I don’t like it. But I haven’t really been able to define...
17 Jul 2019 3 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman
While people shouldn’t be overworked, the concept of the weekend and 9–5 schedules is a truly archaic tradition. Monday through Friday, 9–5. That’s how much of the world’s population spends its day working. But why? And whose 9–5? New York’s? Tokyo...
15 Jul 2019 4 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman
I originally wrote this article on Medium, but I decided to transfer it over, in part because of a recent article by @LiteLiger about Claymore Token ending up as a scam. While due diligence is always important, the fact that nobody caught an obvious...
14 Jul 2019 5 minute read 2 comments Daniel Goldman
Imagine being an early farmer, working along the Nile. Times are tough, and your plot of land isn’t producing nearly as well as you need it to in order to feed your family. You have a neighbor further up the river, and his land is performing much bet...
3 Jul 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman
Humans, and our early ancestors, have had a long history of altering our environment to suit our needs. If we want to truly understand our interaction with and in the biosphere, we have to do so by looking at analogs and extensions of ideas from biol...
2 Jul 2019 5 minute read 22 comments Daniel Goldman
For the last 10,000 years or so, government has served a purpose. But it’s no longer needed. Now is the era of blockchain governance. I’ve been pushing for blockchain and cryptoasset based alternatives to much of what government does, for quite s...
