Life After Google

Money signals the real scarcities of the world concealed in the false infinities of free.

telecom is the nation’s most heavily taxed and regulated industry, and it is capital-intensive and changing more rapidly than any other industry.

Tuur Demeester’s disdainful voice flared over the Skype link from Belgium to the classroom in Guatemala.

UFM became the first university in the Americas to accept bitcoins for payment. The Startup Cities Institute has its home there, part of a movement Mark Klugmann conceived of, at least in part, as a vessel for digital currencies

What transforms “super-AI” from a technology into a religious cult is the assumption that the human mind is essentially a computer, a material machine.

This bitcoin flaw represents a huge opportunity for other cryptocurrencies. But few of them to date—in the embryonic “stable coin” movement—reflect any notion of a currency as a measuring stick.

To understand the prospects for bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies and tokens, it is necessary to grasp the centrality of gold. Gold resolved both the horizontal and vertical enigmas of money. As a universal index of value, it muted the volatile shifts and shuffles of exchange rates. As an unchanging standard, it made interest rates a reliable

The genius behind bitcoin comes from a dynamic vision in which computer resources—storage and processing—always grow faster than the blockchain. It is the epitome of value creation in a world of abundant goods and services and a scarcity of time.

As I mentioned to Mercer, I have often expressed my disdain for this approach as an “outsider trading” scandal. If