Liberalism, the foundation of our current political structures, was conceptualised during the Enlightenment period in the 16th century. Philosophical and academic contributions came from many people, different

Bitcoin is not an original concept, as many people would like to think. In fact, Bitcoin is the result of quite a few iterations of similar ideas from the past. Ecash The first idea around electronic currency

People or organisations often think about software security as only defined by the software itself. As long as the software has the right features I'm ok, right? In my opinion, the security of some program

I haven't had the mental capacity this week to think of my own topic for a blog post. So here's a short list of interesting things and articles I found in the past few days. Brave with MetaMask MetaMask

In a financial bubble... ...people's savings are losing purchase power through negative real interest rates. Simply put, when printing money (inflation) with a rate of 2% and an interest rate of -0.5%

A friend just asked me where to find more information about Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Here are the links I sent to this person. First of all, bitcoin.org is a decent resource and a good place

I recently had a fun conversation with someone about calories, in food specifically. It's pretty common to count calories, or at least to acknowledge those numbers that grocery stores now put on the front

Inspiration is such an important thing to me. That, together with love and passion is what gets me up in the morning and what makes me try to achieve what I want to achieve. Where do you go to find

Criticising Bitcoin's energy consumption is easy, because it's obvious. It's the easy way out of a complicated topic that has much wider implications than initially obvious. This blog post is a long-form

Back in May I went on my first run with my new Garmin vívoactive 3 watch. I’ve had a very old Garmin Forerunner 15 in the past. But after selling my bike I decided to treat myself with a newer watch. What

In this last we will briefly share some random thoughts on token distribution mechanisms as part of my tokenisation series. A token distribution event is sometimes called an initial coin offering (ICO)

In this third blog post in my tokenisation series, I will share some thoughts around price valuation of tokens. But before you read further you must know that there isn't a magic formula that will tell

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Here's a picture of a non-blockchain discount token; a loyalty card to our local café. I know the exact value of this token, it's worth 1 hot drink after I bought 6 for the regular price. In the first

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This Picasso painting could be tokenised in two different ways (1) the painting itself could be represented by a non-fungible token, because it's not mutually exchangeable with other paintings and (2)

This is a short post to highlight some blockchain projects that are live and providing some sort of actual utility for general users. I'm not going to include projects that provide financial exchange utility,

It's sometimes hard to frame conversations around cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether. That's largely down to the fact that no one can truly express what these things are, and what they mean to humans

When developing dapps and smart contracts, it's of great importance to have a good development workflow and to go through the right amount of testing and validation. In previous posts I've explained how

A common usability problem with cryptographic systems like blockchains is that accounts, smart contracts and content on the blockchain are addressed with hashes like 0x7eF963588706a8d39D481634eB46f5c54A04c584.