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CareFirst, Insurance Disruption, and the Zen of Faxing

29 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments jer979!!

tl;dr: a simple change being anything but simple turns a health insurance management problem into a moment of reflection. By way of a fax machine. I needed to make one change to our health insurance policy. All I wanted to do was switch the “Primary...

When Your Rep is “On Chain”

28 Jul 2020 3 minute read 1 comment jer979!!

tl;dr: Anyone can claim to be a Navy SEAL. But not everyone is. On personal reputation systems and a zero trust world. I receive an unsolicited email from a recruiter the other day. He was inquiring as to whether NSM was hiring and, if so, were we lo...

Carl Jung and the 4th Dimension of Time

27 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments jer979!!

tl;dr: Time marches on and through. The enemy of time lies within each of us. “What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stands in need of the aims of my own kindness,...

Why Crypto-Economic Systems will be more secure

24 Jul 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!!

tl;dr: Follow the money. The devs and hackers going after bug bounties certainly will. One of my favorite authors in the crypto space is Trent McConaghy, CTO of Ocean Protocol (discl: I own a tiny amount of it) I recently read one of his latest posts...

China, Chops, and Private Keys

23 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!

tl;dr: Turns out that the Chinese already get the idea of crypto private keys. They’ve been using it for centuries. There was a fascinating article in the WSJ a few days ago entitled The Real Power Brokers In China: Those Who Wield the Rubber Stamps ...

Theta Network Generous Early Bird Rewards

22 Jul 2020 3 minute read 8 comments Mamaecrypto

After long anticipation, today I joined the Theta Network Platform after stumbling on a lucky referral link on Twitter. Living in the US I sadly distanced myself from the project after selling my small share of Theta tokens as regulations restricted...

What if it just keeps going on?

22 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!

tl;dr: The Covid ‘trough of disillusionment’ is upon us. Buckle up. I rarely watch the network evening news, but every now and then, it’s worth it. Mostly just to get a sense of what is going on, since I tend to live in a bubble of my own making. Ton...

The Driver’s License Dividend

22 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!

tl;dr: Insurance rates skyrocket with a teen driver, but there’s a dividend. Crazy as it may be to believe, I actually had a blogreader ask me if my daughter had passed the test for her driver’s license. I went on a long venting rant in The Driver’s...

Recycle For Life is Global decentralized Tokenized Recycling Network

21 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments JaksHitam

The term e-waste is inexactly applied to customer and business electronic hardware that is close or toward the finish of its valuable life. There is no reasonable definition for e-waste; for example whether things like microwaves and other comparativ...

Hoskinson: Cardano's PoS More Secure And Decentralized Than Bitcoin's PoW

18 Jul 2020 3 minute read 1 comment PassionCryptodotcom

According to Charles Hoskinson, Cardano's Proof of Stake (PoS) protocol is more secure and decentralized than Bitcoin's Proof of Work (PoW) . In a new whiteboard video, Hoskinson attacked Bitcoin maximalists Jimmy Song and Tone Vays and refuted thei...