Having recently started to read “Willpower” by Roy Baumeister, I am fascinated with the controversy over the reproducibility of his experiments on eg...

Having recently started to read “Willpower” by Roy Baumeister, I am fascinated with the controversy over the reproducibility of his experiments on eg...

One key lesson from COVID19 is that we need a lot more decentralization. This is especially true when the center is as inept at managing the crisis a...

One key lesson from COVID19 is that we need a lot more decentralization. This is especially true when the center is as inept at managing the crisis a...

One of the key criteria for the longterm success of any computer system would seem to be stability. For instance, if there is an app that crashes you...

One of the key criteria for the longterm success of any computer system would seem to be stability. For instance, if there is an app that crashes you...

There was an interesting post on the YCombinator blog by Ramon Recuero about the evolution of blockchain protocols through forking and copying. The p...

There was an interesting post on the YCombinator blog by Ramon Recuero about the evolution of blockchain protocols through forking and copying. The p...

Today Algorand and Blockstack are announcing that they are collaborating on the Clarity smart contract language. Clarity is a decidable (i.e. non-Tur...

Today Algorand and Blockstack are announcing that they are collaborating on the Clarity smart contract language. Clarity is a decidable (i.e. non-Tur...

During the initial growth of the Internet, the United States enacted a variety of Safe Harbors, such as the DMCA, that allowed new innovation to unfo...

During the initial growth of the Internet, the United States enacted a variety of Safe Harbors, such as the DMCA, that allowed new innovation to unfo...

HTTP as the underlying protocol of the web allows for decentralized publishing. Anyone can operate a web server and publish their own content. And an...

HTTP as the underlying protocol of the web allows for decentralized publishing. Anyone can operate a web server and publish their own content. And an...

There is a confusion about Bitcoin that trips up a lots of people when they first learn about it: the blockchain is organizationally decentralized bu...

There is a confusion about Bitcoin that trips up a lots of people when they first learn about it: the blockchain is organizationally decentralized bu...

I became interested in Bitcoin reasonably early and was fortunate to invest in some early mining (although as with all good investments in retrospect...

I became interested in Bitcoin reasonably early and was fortunate to invest in some early mining (although as with all good investments in retrospect...

Both individually and collectively we learn more from our failures than from our successes. Failures make us question our assumptions, successes gene...

Both individually and collectively we learn more from our failures than from our successes. Failures make us question our assumptions, successes gene...