The book of secrets. The book of spells. The fundamentals of anarchy. Nature does not make mistakes. Tao does not fight, triumph.
8 Nov 2025 6 minute read 8 comments SirGerardThe1st
Source The long and winding road that leads to economies backed by a scarce and valuable physical asset like gold, and ends in the current system where gold has been replaced by a government-issued, non-physically backed promissory note, began at B...
2 Nov 2025 5 minute read 4 comments SirGerardThe1st
Image by martinahavlikova84 from Pixabay Mass media, social networks, and mass advertising bombard us with fallacies every morning. Sometimes, the fallacy is so blatant that we're embarrassed to see or hear it. When a minister says that last month's...
16 Oct 2025 7 minute read 0 comments SirGerardThe1st
Source In 1964, "Goldfinger," the third film about the British Empire hero James Bond, was released. The idea of the film's villain, Auric Goldfinger, an eccentric gold smuggler played by an excellent German actor named Gert Fröbe, was very simple...
19 Jul 2025 10 minute read 11 comments SirGerardThe1st
Image by Roy Snyder from Pixabay Legend has it that Thomas Edison conducted more than 1,000 experiments before creating something resembling a light bulb, an object that would later become one of the things that most enslaved humanity, as the current...
13 Jul 2025 3 minute read 13 comments SirGerardThe1st
Image by ways2web from Pixabay I took a semester off, as I wrote my last post on Publish0x in February 2025. There were several reasons, but the most important is that I'm writing a novel that deals with life in an anarchist community, and it's tak...
10 Jan 2025 14 minute read 13 comments SirGerardThe1st
Image by Pexels from PixabayHow long is forever? Sometimes, just one second.Lewis Carrol – Alice in Wonderland I get very nervous when I mention the word blockchain and people say, “oh right, Bitcoin.” Incredibly, a revolutionary technology that solv...
9 Dec 2024 10 minute read 21 comments SirGerardThe1st
Image by shogun from Pixabay #BridgeAcrossWithACX What I'm going to say may sound like heresy. The reality is that I hate MetaMask. Deeper down, what I really dislike is DeFi, and more deeply (those who follow me will have seen me write this several...
18 Sep 2024 8 minute read 33 comments SirGerardThe1st
Unless someone wants me to believe that black holes, antimatter or the closed timelike curve can be explained by the arguments of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published by Sir Isaac Newton in 1687, I find it difficult to understand t...
1 Sep 2024 7 minute read 16 comments SirGerardThe1st
Image by Niklas from Pixabay A while ago, my friend Sugarfix suggested that I look at the Lloyd's case as an example of decentralization, long before the crypto revolution that made the world aware of the term decentralization. Most people involved w...
2 Aug 2024 12 minute read 11 comments SirGerardThe1st
Image by Albert-Paul from Pixabay It's not Bitcoin. It's decentralization. Bitcoin is the visible part of a far superior philosophical and cultural revolutionary concept today, which changes the system of governance that humanity has had since the Eg...
