This is the third of three segments on Nobel winning Mathematician John Nash from the perspective of Jal (SoakerPatoshi on Twitter). We created this series and originally broadcast it to Twitter via Periscope
This is the second of three segments on Nobel winning Mathematician John Nash from the perspective of Jal (SoakerPatoshi on Twitter). We created this series and originally broadcast it to Twitter via Periscope
This is the first of three segments on Nobel winning Mathematician John Nash from the perspective of Jal (SoakerPatoshi on Twitter). We created this series and originally broadcast it to Twitter via Periscope
Meta-mask (test Eth) Powered Web Based Poker Shove/Fold Calculator
Website link: I've been working on a little hobby project that is a poker calculator github code. It handles specific situations tournament players often get into when they only have a certain amount of
“Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency released in 2009 by a pseudonymous group or person that went by the name Satoshi Nakatmoto…”. I worry the above hypothetical quote is a common answer from a bitcoin expert
The Venezuelan Petro and the NICO: The Advent of National Initial Crypto-Coin Offerings
In the near future there may be a smaller number of major currencies used in the world and these may stand in competitive relations among themselves. There is now the “euro” and the old inflationary history
Weak Proof of Stake: A New Security/Trust Model For Online Poker Sites
Coinpoker's novel (for poker) business model allows them to take interesting approaches to traditional problems the poker industry presents. Here I am thinking of the problem of botting collusion, and
An Interesting Technological and Political Evolution
I have previously suggested that tether is a program that helps establish crypto exchangelandea and also that a logical next step if for government to take over the tether program. Venezuela is already
Coinpoker: A New Poker Site Model (and a true usecase for the tokenization of a business model)
The Coinpoker ICO is the beginning of a new era for poker. They raised millions of dollars of equity in exchange for their token called CHPs. A lot of people scoff at ICO's and say there is no value in
From the Austrian view the idea of a well-managed money is worrisome because they view central banking as a counterproductive practice. Conversely, from the central banking point of view there is a need
Thinking about bots or cheaters and how they cannot be stopped. I've made the conjecture, or shown, that Coinpoker's (for example as the first of more to come with this token model) token CHP's will have
In regard to bots. Could we identify a gto strategy if could see all of a certain players hole cards? Because I think if we could then we would have solved poker. It seems it would take a bot to know a
Why I'm Powering Down (For a Few Times)-Finally Found My Missing Friend
I built much of my steemit account up writing about my theories on addiction and the road to recovery. Much of the insights were extrapolated from my experience trying to help a friend of mine get to rehab
Years ago I started writing about how the advent of bitcoin would change the landscape of poker in a dramatic but favorable fashion. Today we are starting to see projects emerge that are doing exactly
An important advancement for our global civilization is the achievement of international stability of currencies. The goal is not stabilization of purchasing power, which is an impossible feat, but the
In my previous essay A Neo-Gold Standard: Exploring the Effects of a Weak Coalition of Central Banks Inflation Targeting Bitcoin I argued as bitcoin’s popularity grows central banks around the world will
A Neo-Gold Standard: Exploring the Effects of a Weak Coalition of Central Banks Inflation Targeting Bitcoin
The purpose of this writing is to influence the managers (and also advisors of managers) of the various major centrally banked currencies of the world to consider entering a loose coalition whereby they
Crypto-Kittens is an Attack and Ethereum Lightning (State) Channels are the Network’s Only Hope.
If you know what Ethereum and Crypto-kittens are you have landed on an interesting writing. I have peers now that have never invested into crypto-currencies that are now asking me how to buy crypto-kittens.
What Tether is A pro-bitcoin exchange would encourage diversity and depth of the markets. Exchanges with no other fiat based protection would welcome and appreciate a Tether. Although in competition with
An Optimal Basket of Reliably Tethered Fiat Tokens
…my personal view is that a practical global money might most favorably evolve through the development first of a few regional currencies of truly good quality. And then the “integration” or “coordination”