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Proof-of-existence for one-off documents is super awesome, and it enables anchored security models like Keybase‘s and, in a much less simplistic way, Blockstack‘s. And many others. Sometimes, you can get a ton of utility from putting only one small thing in the blockchain. I’ve been thinking recently that, instead of putting just the small anchors […]

I think over time, we’ll realize that there are really only a very small number of unique phenomena in the universe, most of which are capable of operating at different scales. One of these will be complex emergence. By this, I mean order-from-chaos, that which decreases local entropy while increasing it globally. Emergence is atoms […]

These aren’t new, they’re just new to me, and I think they’re really neat. Like most non-revolutionary technology, they solve a problem that wouldn’t have existed without the larger scope of that very same technology. Here’s a look at how they might be applied to a usecase with which I’m very familiar: cloud-based, brick-and-mortar point […]

300 years ago, if I heard my brother’s voice around the corner of a building, then you’d better believe he was right around that corner speaking those words. Nowadays, he could be on another continent on speakerphone, or it could be his recorded voice from last year, or it could be a complete fake. The […]

Heads up. Extended metaphors are coming. If we imagine for a minute that generating profit is like consuming energy in the natural world, then we tend to run companies like we’re building fires. We find some raw materials, light a match, and grow it until we can burn everything that’s flammable (and maybe there’s some […]