Proof of Stake: The Free Lunch — In this article, I’m going to delve into the topic of Proof-of-Stake on Ethereum and explore whether or not it is a viable alternative to Proof-of-Work, the consensus mechanism used in Bitcoin. As it turns out, Ethereum is broken. But how is it that cryptos such as Ethereum so consistently…

You have three mice in a maze; their goal is to escape. The concept of this game is intuitively understandable because we all play it every day, more or less. The mice’s prerogative is as follows: Explore falsity (incorrect paths, dead ends etc) to discover the truth (the correct path) …

Jeremy invests in many things, often unsuccessfully. Becoming increasingly unenthused, Jeremy looks for something a little outside the parameters of ‘traditional’ investments. He hears that Bitcoin is changing the foundations of the monetary system and has been the best-performing asset of the past decade. …

Value is relational. Something is only valuable in the context of something else. For instance, coffee isn’t valuable; it’s valuable to you. In this sense, value is very dynamic. If you change the object of value or the subject of value, the value itself will change. Value makes the world…

People are intimidated by Bitcoin, and how can you blame them when answers of this level of ambiguity are the standard: Where is Bitcoin actually stored? Everywhere, but nowhere in particular. When you send it, what path does it travel? It doesn’t travel. When it’s lost, where does it go…

Nietzsche famously called Plato ‘boring’. The reasoning for this is that Nietzsche believed that Socrates and the introduction of ‘idealism’, the notion that the fact that the only perfect circle exists as a function of mathematics implies the existence of a world of perfect ideas beyond materials, marked the beginning…

I was very touched when I heard the moving story of the boy in striped pyjamas. I felt a strong con-nection-with him. Still, I wrestled with sensations of chest pain as my heartstrings were torn by the nazi-polluted air that occupied my room and clawed at my bronchi. I couldn’t…

Preface: So in a previous blog post titled: Why You Wont Profit From Crypto (The Anatomy of a Crypto Cycle), I mentioned my belief that putting Bitcoin and altcoins in the same basket, when considering investment decisions, is inaccurate. There is a common association between the two, so much so that…

So I was scrolling through medium when I found an article colourfully titled “Bitcoin Is Going to Suffer a Vicious & Painful Death: 4 painfully obvious signs that point to Bitcoin’s long-term demise”, (I’d just like to point out that nothing is ever as obvious as it seems in economics)…