Sublime

What remains of interpersonal, non-programmatic banking is likely to look very similar to the proscriptions of Islamic finance, with a dramatically reduced role for debt, and a focus on risk sharing rather than risk transfer.

Blockchains are multiplayer.

That Bitcoin can potentially be considered concordant with the teachings of Islamic finance is an insight we owe to conversation with Saifedean Ammous. What we mean by this is since bitcoin is a digital bearer asset and not a debt instrument, its natural state of safe custody is outside financial institutions.

Othman was the director of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission.

While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.