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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...
tl;dr: if you can’t control your attention, you can’t win the game, no matter what game it is. I’ve been thinking about the themes of the “Attention Economy” and the “Billion Channel Universe” for over a decade now. It was all based on a post I read...
7/17/2020I've been doing trading analysis on some coins from Binance/Okex & I found something interesting in DigiByte.So,Let's start with a little dramatic story.Most of us know there were very long feuds that took place publicly between Binance Foun...
tl;dr: Know where you are on the adoption curve. Be aware of where others are. Behave accordingly. Easier said than done. There came a point in my journey of crypto exploration where I just kind of threw up my hands and said, “I really don’t care to...
tl;dr: Is private property at the root of society’s problems today? How might taxes evolve to be less of a drain on people? I read a fascinating article by Alastair Parvin called “A New Land Contract”. It puts forth the idea that a root cause of grow...
tl;dr: Bitcoin v. Gold. One of them can be counterfeited and seized. Back in September, I wrote about the Hamilton vs. Satoshi rap battle video that was making the rounds. “Centralized” vs. “decentralized” banking was the theme. I’m wondering if...
tl;dr: a new crop of financial ratings firms is emerging in the crypto industry. A sign of maturation. There are traditional finance metrics like EPS, EBITDA, etc. for assessing the value of traditional organizations. Then, there are crypto-native fi...
tl;dr: Allowing for randomness fosters creativity. The location, whether physical or digital, is what matters. One of the observations I’ve seen about the downsides of remote work is the lack of “random” interactions. You know, the kind that happen s...
tl;dr: When the Internet is centralized at chokepoints, nation-states can engage in digital war games. India v. China in Round 1. I’ve long been concerned about the depths of penetration into American and Western society that TikTok has acquired. As...
tl;dr: Success isn’t difficult. It’s easy. Focus is difficult. Thoughts from Thomas Edison. All the way back in the pre-Covid world of December 2019, I had a post called “Sun Tzu and Why Growth is a Function of Momentum”. My not so earth shattering c...
