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.
17 Jan 2020 4 minute read 8 comments rhyzom
CHAI is an ERC-20 which wraps DAI + Maker's Dai Savings Rate (DSR). DSR is a newly added feature that came with Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) and constitutes a mechanism for the Maker DAO to have some control on the demand side of the supply and demand...
13 Jan 2020 2 minute read 7 comments rhyzom
BLAKE3 is a newly announced cryptographic hash function (9th of January, 2020) and a SHA-3 finalist designed by a team of cryptographers among which Zooko Wilcox from Zcash (the others being Jack O'Connor, Samuel Neves and Jean-Philippe Aumasson...
18 Dec 2019 9 minute read 1 comment rhyzom
I really wouldn't call myself libertarian, just to be clear. Actually, I wouldn't subscribe to any kind of ism or declare myself any kind of ist or ian - cos I find this explicit subscription to some ideology or set of preconceived notions, ideas, ru...
18 Dec 2019 13 minute read 6 comments rhyzom
Dr. Ruja Ignatova is really a gypsy/Romani originally from my home town/area here. She worked for some time under the wing/guidance/patronage of Tsvetelina Borislavova, "the richest woman in Bulgaria" - daughter of an ex-secret service high up from t...
12 Dec 2019 26 minute read 5 comments rhyzom
Tezos is an experiment in formalized on-chain self-governance of a distributed crypto-system, such that it could modify its own set of rules and make protocol upgrades by way of having systematic formal procedures in place, where stakeholders reach a...
25 Nov 2019 18 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
This was an excellent piece, "Crypto’s Finance Fetish": The reason crypto-financiers get triggered is because they confuse being with becoming, and because they don’t like to have their assumptions and strategies questioned. According to the Oxford...
14 Oct 2019 3 minute read 1 comment rhyzom
The value of ad hoc assembled peer-to-peer networks on the basis of a common protocol and a shared database of records (essentially constituting a kind of bureaucracy and means of record-keeping) is really above and beyond in that itself, the concept...
6 Oct 2019 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
In their latest announcement, Tether seem to have felt the need to announce their anticipation of getting sued in what they in advance deem as "meritless and mercenary lawsuits based on bogus studies." Given the build up and all the context up until...
27 Sep 2019 6 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Came to recently re-read Deleuze & Guattari's essay (part of the "Thousand Plateaus" tome) "Nomadology: The War Machine" -- a work that can't be quite pinned down, but as in the spirit of D&G having quite the trans-disciplinary scope of breadth, pas...
