PANAMA CITY, 18 July 2019 - Yesterday was all work; had a ceviche brought up to the room for lunch and only got ready around dinner time. Walked the Casco Antiguo to get a bite and found a $10 Cohiba in some local version of a 7-11 run by Chinese.I first thought it would be a fake cigar but it smoked well. I enjoyed it with a stiff Negroni at the rooftop bar of the Casacasco opposite the hotel, a place that seems popular for corporate outings. I amused myself reading tweets about Facebook’s h...

PANAMA CITY, 18 July 2019 - Yesterday was all work; had a ceviche brought up to the room for lunch and only got ready around dinner time. Walked the Casco Antiguo to get a bite and found a $10 Cohiba in some local version of a 7-11 run by Chinese.I first thought it would be a fake cigar but it smoked well. I enjoyed it with a stiff Negroni at the rooftop bar of the Casacasco opposite the hotel, a place that seems popular for corporate outings. I amused myself reading tweets about Facebook’s h...

LOS ALTOS, Ca, 1 July 2014 - As I write this first blog from the heart of Silicon Valley, a race is on between new protocols that use distributed processing power to execute programmed tasks, from transferring money to governing companies. These decentralised protocols will enable anybody with access to a computer and the internet to participate in an economy that will succeed capitalism as the prevailing paradigm. Participalism is the system in which decentralised computing power allows all ...

LOS ALTOS, Ca, 1 July 2014 - As I write this first blog from the heart of Silicon Valley, a race is on between new protocols that use distributed processing power to execute programmed tasks, from transferring money to governing companies. These decentralised protocols will enable anybody with access to a computer and the internet to participate in an economy that will succeed capitalism as the prevailing paradigm. Participalism is the system in which decentralised computing power allows all ...