2016
Jean-Paul Sartre, signing and significance
On Tuesday 26th of April 2016 I did the final stage of instruction to a select group of people concerning [...]
Bitcoin and the costs of consumption
Bitcoin is under attack, but the arguments are misdirected at the ‘strawman’ of total consumption. Bitcoin is painted as a [...]
What happens after Moore’s law….
Now that it seems clear that Moore’s Law will reach its end, what will happen? Whether the predictions are of [...]
Bitcoin Mining: Consistency and the Distribution of Transactions
Misunderstandings in the bitcoin community have led to false conclusions about the way that bitcoin works. The bitcoin mining process [...]
Social Choice, Bitcoin, and Arrow’s Theorem
What is the value of a Bitcoin blockchain alternative? Many propositions add alternative states, which must be included in the [...]
Tulips and Other Myths
What common knowledge tells us and the truth of a matter is not always the same thing. Sometimes history is [...]
Generating a Bitcoin address
Although several good Bitcoin libraries are available, to ensure the compatibility and security of software using Bitcoin, it is important [...]