David Brooks, the commentator, has offered an interesting frame for what is happening to conservatism. He says that the Reagan era conservatism was focused on resisting liberal social policies and limiting

So you see a smart contract available for sports betting - called Hunchmoney or something like that. Let's say you endorse it and put a little ether into your hunchmoney wallet or buy a few hunchcoins.

Go to to listen to NPR trying to take on cryptocurrency. But be forewarned that it is sometimes exasperating to listen to Luddites pontificate. First, the issue of trust and security and ransomware is

We hear so much these days about fake news and how to be media savvy. Competitive claims are aired about everything and we struggle to make sense of it all. Critical thinking about ANY news is essential

As light shifts and shadows stretch Our country edges to the ditch Our country edges to the ditch The kapos have to scratch their itch Our common fabric we now unstitch As light shifts and shadows stretch

I was already ready Ready as I’d ever be Kept my voice steady As she walked out on me I called her a whore To even the score The sheets were stained Does salt do that? Outside it rained I heard her skid

Here is a letter that was faxed to the Commissioner for Patents. Let's hope the USPTO acts on the suggestion. Dear Commissioner, In the information age, terminology evolves rapidly and new terms are introduced

It is getting real. Have you noticed the number of articles from former explorers in the cryptocurrency space that question open blockchains and call for the introduction of some sort of intermediary structure

North Carolina is often described as a FinTech hub because Bank of America and Wells Fargo are embedded into Charlotte's economy. But evidence for disruptive FinTech startups is quite thin. If one uses

The stakes are high as blockchains with smart contracts gain traction. On the one side are the proprietary blockchain vendors like R3; and on the other are the open blockchain enthusiasts like Ethereum

There is a sense of deflation following Devcon2. I think it is because the "killer app" did not appear, and the incremental improvements, while real, were already baked into the cake. What did

A decision has been issued that will have a huge impact on software oriented and related patents. The Alice decision and Mayo decision has been used to invalidate existing patents and impede issuance of

Last labor day week there were perhaps 5 articles or stories on the blockchain discovered through an alert on Google Scholar. This week there are over 50. It gets increasingly harder to navigate this

IBM has decided to really invest staff and effort into the blockchain. Kudos! They have already been contributing to the Hyperledger project and have probably learned through that that an immutable distributed

It happened again today. The developer of a proprietary blockchain Adam Ludwin of Chain told Fortune interviewer Jeff John Roberts to beware of the hype surrounding blockchain. And Roberts duly reported

Anarchists claim the individual is self-sovereign. Nation states vary conditions and terms for the sovereignty they allow or assign. For example, some nation states define men as more sovereign than women.

Applications that are open source, token based, stored in a decentralized blockchain, managed by algorithms, not controlled by a single entity, and improved by majority votes and decisions can be an engine

If you follow blockchain news, you'll start to notice the emergence of articles by former advocates of open software that question open blockchains or open platforms. These are being published by "news

As distributed autonomous organizations in a trustless environment come online, hypocrisy becomes a huge temptation. We all want to control our destiny and the transparent distributed organization threatens

The problem: Development of applications is undemocratic, inefficient, and often constrained to networks of influencers who have access to capital. Those with access to capital skew the development process