Technology and Choice

It was an absolute pleasure to have a long talk with Adam B. Levine about the concept of Value, its core meaning, how we exchange with each other with Value in mind, and how new tools of cryptocurrencies and cryptographic tokens give us options that have never existed before–and, of course, some speculation on the possibiliti...

Some more interesting folks at the recent Texas Bitcoin Conference shared some more very interesting projects and activities. This episode we explore: Spectiv – Nick Ravanbakhsh Grid + – Karl Kreder Cryptoart – Troy Ferno Cryptopods – Eric Hoffenbach Decred – Marco Peereboom Once again, huge thanks to Paul and Linda Sn...

I had some great talks with folks at the Texas Bitcoin Conference in late October. This episode: Paul Puey, CEO of Airbitz and the new Edge wallet, on taking the core concepts and success of Airbitz and taking it to a new level of reach and implementation, rebranding as Edge, and making it much more than just a wallet, but ...

At the recent Texas Bitcoin Conference I had a chance to have a long talk with Eric Anderson (hacker-named “Eijah”) about his new project, Promether. We cover his history, including a good delve into Demonsaw (a very effective, proven means of anonymous, secure and private communication and file sharing) which has been in us...

Our guest this episode is Joe Urgo, Co-Founder of district0x. district0x is an open source platform for the deployment of decentralized organizations, markets and limitless other means of organizational interactions, including the means to describe and execute governance models as agreed by the participants. This seems to b...

In this fourth installment of The Hemp Corner, we set out to better understand the amazing biochemical relationship between the human species and the cannabis plant. To get very far we have to break out some understanding of biochemical interactions in general and how they influence the human experience. Our guest, Dr. Jim L...

In wrapping up my discussion of Tezos with CTO Arthur Breitman, the theme of “Trust: where and how much to bestow it” is central enough to make it the theme of the episode, though we cover a lot of other aspects of Tezos and blockchain tech in general with a bit more technical depth than the last episode.

Those weary of the complexity, inequities and corruption of govern-**ment** tend to also be weary of the idea of govern-**ance**. But there's no way around it: Governance happens one way or the other, because otherwise **stuff** just **happens**. Not an optimum scene, for sure.