Technology and Choice

As this Hemp Corner series goes forward, we will definitely be exploring the direct interfaces between internet tech, cryptocurrency and the agronomy of hemp, but to start, we explore how the nature of hemp works towards a common goal: Decentralization.

This is the second of what we're calling The Hemp Corner . . . we thought it would be a good idea to work at straightening out all the scrambled thinking about cannabis and hemp that has been brought about by nearly eight decades of prohibition and contradictory propaganda.

The hope of Bitcoin enabling fast, frictionless micropayments is one of the promises of the technology that has excited us all. But it’s been a long time coming and, especially in Bitcoin, it has seemed a long way off.

Recently caught up to Jeremy Kauffman, Founder and CEO of LBRY, a protocol and platform for sharing digital content, with incentives for all.

We're very, very jazzed to be introducing a new series within the Technology and Choice podcast, dedicated to the technology and choices of Cannabis, a plant species which encompasses so very much more than just its psychoactive variety, marijuana.

What is the most basic action in the universe? Influence. Technology is all about better directing influence, whether it be influence on the environment, the materials at hand, electronics, software, or people. And there is a lot of technology on the nature of influence and persuasion amongst people.

Great talk with Shawn Wilkinson, CEO/CTO of Storj Labs, about the Storj network which is about to go live in a very big way in headon competition with Amazon Web Services and the like. Hey, AWS, et al, you will be absorbed. Resistance is futile.

While visiting my friend and associate, Travis Remington, in his home in Utah, we recorded this conversation to give some background on where we are going with our specific business idea, but more broadly,