I was thinking about the relationship between traditional financial system and the parallel crypto world, about hard forks and the fight between big blockers, bigger blockers and core. I find all this completely funny, but in a totally different way than most people. If you look at traditional finance (gonna call them Wall Street), they […]
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With the recent Initial Coin Offering (ICO) craze, one cannot stop thinking if all those tokens are really required for the applications or if it’s just a way to raise capital (crowdfund). While I appreaciate new ways of funding Internet protocols and decentralized applications, there are drawback of doing it this way, one of the […]
An insight that is important in relation to recent talks about hard forks: Blockchain creates a shared view of one history (or reality) among the participants who enforce the same set of rules. Also, with the recent talks about scammy ICOs and whitepaper-backed shitcoins, remember Metcalfe’s and Reed’s laws (the value of network is either […]
“Have you ever tried not being a tourist when you travel?”, asked my friend. He meant not checking into a hotel, but living where the locals live, buying groceries where locals buy groceries, cooking food and doing your day to day business. We had an interesting conversation that evolved from a question I used to […]
I was eagerly awaiting for my Turris Omnia which I preordered on their Indiegogo campaign almost a year ago. The campaign raised more than 1.2 million dollars and the router was created by a team from Czech Republic’s .cz domain administrator CZ-NIC. I was always a little bit sad that the ISPs sell you a […]
In recent months I have met many inspiring people. They are generous, fun to be around and solving the world’s problems. Diabetes, partnerships, waste, security, retirement – all of these are huge problems, and I met people that are doing all they can to fix these problems. I think this is the best career move […]
What you’ll learn: Investment is not about picking the right financial product (like stocks or bonds or mutual funds) There’s an investment strategy that is based on your values and relates to other goals of your life – like elimination of stress There is a way to gain from disorder and chaos, not only go […]
As you all probably know I am a fan of Bitcoin, but I am not that much of an alt-coin guy. What I mean by that is that I think that a main property of money is that it is universal means of exchange. It is good that you can store your wealth as savings […]
Chaos Communication Congress is the oldest hacker conference in the world and the largest of its kind in Europe. It takes place at the end of each year in Hamburg and brings current research in the field of security, networking and increasingly also politics and other topics related to “hacking” – the unconventional use of […]
For the past few years, I have been an iPhone user. At first I was jailbreaking, that got frustrating pretty soon, so I forgot about phone freedom, which for me means I can install any app I want, not any app that Steve or any other guy (however nice) approves of. I mainly missed a […]