“Canadians are nice.” — Canada is not the kind and friendly place you see depicted in the media.While undoubtedly more polite (and often more open-minded) than its neighbo(u)r to the south, Canada has a long history of human rights abuses it would rather the world never hear about. Instead Canada Is Massively Overrated, Impossibly…

Exploring the evolutionary significance of money, and consciousness Satoshi the Alchemist If all this sounds strange to you (as it does to me), you may be interested in knowing that many before us have encountered and wrestled with very similar ideas. For example, such a proposition, that discovering and engaging with an ‘incorruptible’…

The Turkish government has launched a campaign to solicit people to hand over their under-the-mattress gold and deposit it into the financial system, in a helpless effort to boost the recently distressed domestic currency, the Turkish Lira. The “under-the-mattress” term refers to a long-held tradition in Turkey of turning to…

What is a DAO? — A DAO, or “Decentralized Autonomous Organization,” is a community-led entity with no central authority. It is fully autonomous and transparent: smart contracts lay the foundational rules, execute the agreed upon decisions, and at any point, proposals, voting, and even the very code itself can be publicly audited. Ultimately, a DAO…

A few months ago, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg gave a hint about a project that will change the way we use the internet and how Facebook (and its sister social media like Instagram and WhatsApp) will metamorphose due to their incorporation into this project.

Blockchain. Digital Transformation. Although discussions about these concepts are prevalent in a wide range of industries, some people may still be unaware of the full scope of changes we’re on the verge of undertaking in the way our communities & organizations manage transportation, business, and the increasingly-vital collection and usage…

Why freedom is foundational to action, wealth creation, and an ethical existence. — Freedom maximalism is a straightforward philosophy rooted in an inarguable reality: each person owns themself. Individual self-ownership is axiomatic. To assert that individual self-ownership is untrue is itself an expression of individual self-ownership — one cannot argue against it without proving it. In the same way a straight line is…

Exploring the evolutionary significance of God, money, and consciousness. — The Corruption of Money If money is what transmits the information which mediates the optimal structuring of value hierarchies between people, and we accept that improper, inaccurate or corrupted information creates inharmonious, disordered, and ultimately destructive ‘pathological’ hierarchies, then the most important question in the human social realm becomes;‘

NFTs Outsold the Entire Movie Industry in January Wanna hear the craziest stat I heard all month? Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club did more in sales on Opensea ($495m) than the global movie industry did at the box office ($482m) That’s just bored apes.