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From Social Contract to Social Covenant: Extracting Israel From Our Sectarian Chaos
In Israel today, the political poles are being seduced by the song of anarchy, a song that is starting to penetrate deeper into the heart of our society. The force of ideological extremism threatens to dislodge the center. Our national unity, fragile during the best of times, is under an outright attack. Amidst this turmoil, the country faces external threats that compound the urgency for internal cohesion. However, paradoxically, the most profound danger often seems to stem from the risk of ...
From Social Contract to Social Covenant: Extracting Israel From Our Sectarian Chaos
In Israel today, the political poles are being seduced by the song of anarchy, a song that is starting to penetrate deeper into the heart of our society. The force of ideological extremism threatens to dislodge the center. Our national unity, fragile during the best of times, is under an outright attack. Amidst this turmoil, the country faces external threats that compound the urgency for internal cohesion. However, paradoxically, the most profound danger often seems to stem from the risk of ...
What Bitcoin Maxis Can Learn from Rough Diamond’s Adina Wolfson
The pursuit of absolute purity can sometimes descend into bigotry and intolerance, causing more harm than the good it seeks to protect. It’s a lesson I’ve learned through my Jewish growth, observing certain ultra-orthodox sects up close. And it’s a lesson I’m learning again as I watch Bitcoin maxis set a torch to any shred of thought that doesn’t align with their strict orthodoxy. Uncompromising faith can, and should, live side by side with tolerance for those who don’t share the same values....
What Bitcoin Maxis Can Learn from Rough Diamond’s Adina Wolfson
The pursuit of absolute purity can sometimes descend into bigotry and intolerance, causing more harm than the good it seeks to protect. It’s a lesson I’ve learned through my Jewish growth, observing certain ultra-orthodox sects up close. And it’s a lesson I’m learning again as I watch Bitcoin maxis set a torch to any shred of thought that doesn’t align with their strict orthodoxy. Uncompromising faith can, and should, live side by side with tolerance for those who don’t share the same values....
Evolving Money Part 1: The Root Problem With Conventional Currency
As both an academic researcher and the founder of an era-defining technology, Satoshi started his presentation of Bitcoin with the problem. By posing the problem first, Satoshi both sets out a research objective of solving ‘the problem with conventional currency, as well as a total addressable market that could be captured should such a solution work. At stake is no less than money, that genius human innovation that allows us to store any surplus wealth and transport it across space and time....
Evolving Money Part 1: The Root Problem With Conventional Currency
As both an academic researcher and the founder of an era-defining technology, Satoshi started his presentation of Bitcoin with the problem. By posing the problem first, Satoshi both sets out a research objective of solving ‘the problem with conventional currency, as well as a total addressable market that could be captured should such a solution work. At stake is no less than money, that genius human innovation that allows us to store any surplus wealth and transport it across space and time....
