As bitcoin is a calculator for money transfers, Ethereum is a global computer for executing programs. As bitcoin is a recorder of debits and credits for “coins” on a public ledger, Ethereum is a “virtual machine” for framing and sending software instructions for smart contracts or conditional transactions. To pay for it all, it also supplies

RAM can be accessed some ten thousand times faster than disks. Measured by access time, then, RAM is one hundred times cheaper than disk storage. So Google has long led the world in the use of RAM.

These gains are made possible by the industry’s shift of focus from the fruits of computation to its roots in trust and security.

the Future of Bitcoin conference in Arnhem, the Netherlands,

Brave Browser that remedies the bad effects of cookies and turns the tables on every top-down Internet empire.

The existing Internet architecture is top-heavy with apps that can do anything you could want for free, and porous in its underlying protocols to establish identities, property rights, and other facets of the ground state of the system. As a global copying machine, the Internet founders in establishing origins, facts, truths, timestamps, and ground

It has even produced “stablecoins” to serve as units of account, or real money (DigixDAO’s DGX and Emergent’s G-Coin, tied to gold bullion, and Tether, tied to the dollar). And then, the blockchain movement developed ways to mediate between these various tokens, forms, and facets of funds, such as Ripple’s XRP, Bancor, and TREZOR.

Designed to enhance human capabilities and human learning, virtual reality is the opposite of artificial intelligence, which tries to enhance learning by machines.

it was not government that decreed gold as money, rather it is only by holding gold that governments could even issue any form of money at all.”