Reading Time: 4 minutes In October, I published “Why Bitcoin Matters to Millennials.” On the Voice platform, Thomas Wolf responded with his post, “Bitcoin & Millennials — Why It May or May Not Matter.” In that post, he said bitcoin is weak and governments will crush it. People have said that about bitcoin for years. They’re […]
Profiles
Harem is more about Bodies than Porn
Reading Time: 8 minutes Harem, formerly TheseNudesDoNotExist, is seeking to push the envelope on a number of fronts, not least of which is to grow the diversity of its own workforce. Building nudes using AI requires a degree of human oversight in the learning process and none of the current team members of Harem […]
Disrupt everything – especially Art (for the Artists)
Reading Time: 7 minutes KateVass Galerie is a well-known contemporary gallery in Switzerland, which represents established, middle-tier and young emerging artists who are engaged with new technologies in their artistic expression. The founder is a Russian entrepreneur Ekaterina Vassilieva – who shortened her name to Kate Vass for easier pronunciation, Growing up in Russia, […]
Forget Trump Already! Bitcoin Won the U.S. Presidential Election
Reading Time: 3 minutes You may still think the U.S. presidential election is under dispute. It’s not. The president’s team claims fraud, trots out a bunch of witnesses, and tweets all sorts of evidence, but they don’t present any of that it in court. Even their “independent advisors” found no fraud. Their lawyers have […]
Ethereum Scalability Solutions, Connext and Stakenet | XSN Research
Reading Time: 6 minutes Scalability Solutions There have been many attempts at upgrading blockchain infrastructure, with the very first one being Lightning Network, which is arguably as old as the very first Bitcoin software released by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. Looking into Bitcoin 0.1, there is a raw draft of code that would let […]
Nothing is free in Space
Reading Time: 5 minutes You use Space everyday Without the Space Economy modern day life isn’t possible Space is the Fifth Industrial Revolution So says Samson Williams, Anthropologist-in-Residence at the Space Channel, and I believe him on all three counts. He also counters the common misperception from which people suffer as they say they […]
Save the Planet and Earn Money
Reading Time: 5 minutes Stefan Rust, founder and CEO of Sonic Capital, has used his time in COVID to kick start the next version of his career and one that may be his defining legacy: he is on a mission to save the planet and make money. Take that world, kapow! First let’s travel […]
Rhiannon Fletcher – Blockchain and BDSM / #BodybyCrypto
Reading Time: 4 minutes Rhiannon Fletcher is an American teacher and writer living and working in Thailand for more than ten years. She works for a crypto marketing company, WinPlay, by day but is writing an introductory book on BDSM for beginners by night. The book was inspired by a young man asking her […]
Asset backed DeFi – Gold
Reading Time: 5 minutes Mru Patel – CEO Sapian Group and COO of Flash Group. Before COVID19, Mru Patel, CEO Sapian Group and COO of Flash Group, was one of the best-known speakers on the international Blockchain circuit, travelling to 30plus conferences in more than 15 countries over an 8 month period and catching […]
From Crypto to Cash
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s the holy grail of the cryptosphere – mass adoption. The second mantra is help the unbanked: notice I don’t say bank the unbanked, we don’t necessarily want to funnel people into a banking system that no longer serves the ordinary people, but to help people get access to finance. […]