by Guy | Nov 16, 2022 | Bitcoin
“These two jobs are almost always in tension. Any added protection to keep a bad actor out adds a risk that it may also trip up the owner, and any new backup or alternative way to access creates a new potential security hole.” – @max_guise Today we...
by Guy | Nov 2, 2022 | Bitcoin, Culture, Fundamentals, Liberty
“to survive and prosper in this world, man can either make the things he needs and wants, or he can take them. This was true thousands of years ago and it is true today. To use a modern linguistic framing of this notion; man can either perform work to satisfy...
by Guy | Nov 2, 2022 | Bitcoin, Culture, Philosophy
“But if technological civilizations are more common, then we must resolve the Fermi Paradox in a different way. We know that any “solution” is really an a reflection in the mirror of universality, an interpretation of humanity’s future based on what one believes...
by Guy | Nov 2, 2022 | Bitcoin
“Imagine if all respectable business knowledge had been derived from studying large, established companies because there had never been a start-up in living memory. If a start-up then came along, people might well say, “that’s not a business because it doesn’t...
by Guy | Nov 2, 2022 | Bitcoin
“One might ask: if much of the U.K. pension money was about to vanish, where was it going? Partly to the bankers, of course, but mostly, as with any bubble, the value was simply illusory. In 2001, Argentina forced private pension funds to purchase $2.3 billion...
by Guy | Nov 2, 2022 | Bitcoin
“A universal law can be understood to be an objective, observable, and eternal description of some facet of the universe. As such, they can be independently discovered by disparate societies living within the same universe as long as both societies are able to...