Ad hoc heuristics for approaching complex systems and the "unknown unknowns". Techne & episteme. Verum ipsum factum. In the words of Archimedes: "Give me a lever and a place to rest it... or I shall kill a hostage every hour." Rants, share-worthy pieces and occasional insights and revelations.
12 Apr 2020 5 minute read 1 comment rhyzom
So, I've been having this idea in the back of my mind for some time and have been crystallizing and re-articulating it — just made a post on Cent about it, here (to give you better context for the following below). So, with that in mind, you understa...
12 Apr 2020 2 minute read 3 comments rhyzom
Bitcoin tends to outsource functionality to other chains and tzBTC is similar to what WBTC (wrapped Bitcoin) does on the Ethereum chain — a representation of Bitcoin (or a certificate for ownership of Bitcoin) within the Ethereum ecosystem. tzBTC b...
12 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
The initial working draft of Convexity protocol was published in November 2019, paper found here. Zubin Koticha, founder and CEO of Opyn (dapp for insuring your DeFi deposits) has drafted the proposal as a mechanism/strategy for deposit insurance and...
6 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Some of you may be aware that Holochain is really just one component in a much broader concept and vision called Ceptr. Ceptr is pretty ambitious and mind-blowing, a bio-inspired approach to computing which deals with the constitution of meaning from...
5 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
Recently picked up this book of Appadurai's and have nearly finished it. Appadurai (who is an anthropologist recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies) is one of the few people out there whose work is focused on investigating the finan...
4 Apr 2020 3 minute read 6 comments rhyzom
Lien was recently announced (white paper dated April 1st, 2020) DeFi project which describes a new stablecoin mechanism where Ether (ETH) is sliced into two tranches of derivatives — Solid Bond Tokens (SBTs) and Liquid Bond Tokens (LBTs). LBTs absorb...
4 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Roam is a recently released tool branding itself as “a note taking tool for networked thought.” Some may use it for research, others for planning or a to-do and yet others for goal tracking — but the capacities of this incredibly flexible platform do...
4 Apr 2020 18 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
So, we've talked about Solid already I think. It's Tim Berners-Lee's latest project, an undertaking towards re-decentralizing the web and ensuring privacy. Somewhat similar to Urbit, it's a personal data/cloud server called a pod (you can get one her...
29 Mar 2020 3 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
As I look further and in more detail into the Scuttlebutt protocol (recently brought to attention with an earlier short post), I realize it's actually a whole lot more than just a social networking app running on its own protocol. Scuttlebutt (or Sec...
27 Mar 2020 5 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Already mentioned Tim Berners-Lee's latest project (Solid) in a previous recent post. And as pointed out, Linked-Data and the concept of the Semantic Web are at the core of the concept. Basically it is an extension and advancing of the idea of intero...
![Web Ontologies. Standards and Formats for Linked-Data and the Semantic Web: RDF (Resource Description Framework), OWL (Web Ontology Language), JSON-LD, etc. [relevant to Solid, Holo and others]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-160e3ba08a5406676c627fbf56a0edd0a21bfea61238ecb537df63e422c2dd6c.png)
