A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

I recently published a post (Bitcoin Security: a Negative Exponential) where I looked at the consequences of Bitcoin’s declining block…

An open standard for security tokens

David Chaum, the godfather of the cryptocurrency movement, is back with a plan to address bitcoin’s biggest shortcoming: speed.

Under NVT we are in the middle of the bear. In the 2014 bear, there was this zone where volatility dropped to levels suggesting accumulation had begun. We thought the bottom was in.

As one speculative frenzy fizzles, another arises from its ashes.

They turn passion and perseverance into performance.

Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe talks about moonshot investing, founder grit, and mind control.

The human and octopus lineages split 500 million years ago, but apparently we both retained the gene for partying.

Background

Answer (1 of 158): Even though you are casting the question as one about programming, I will answer it in a way that hopefully will be accessible and understandable by non-programmers too.

Let’s go back to sometime in the early 80s. Sorry about that! :)…

“But it is my firm conviction that the ‘Hell of England’ will cease to be that of ‘not making money;’ that we shall get a nobler Hell and a nobler Heaven!” — Thomas Ca…

Linda Xie, cofounder at Scalar Capital, talks about what she saw at ETHBerlin, why it made her think Ethereum's first-mover advantage may be hard for other smart contract platforms to overcome and how

Spread pricing, where pharmacy benefit managers like CVS mark up—sometimes dramatically—the difference between the amount they reimburse pharmacies for a drug and the amount they charge their clients.

This week's major bitcoin bug was even worse than developers let on – it could have been used to effectively print more bitcoin.