Today a journalist grilled me about The Ocean Cleanup, which, in their view, propagates the idea of a ‘technofix’.
I’m truly puzzled by the negative bias towards technology in modern culture. What, in the history of humanity, has fixed more problems than new technologies?
The real bad debt is the reputation our industry keeps lending to scammers and sociopaths by elevating them and allowing them to represent us in the public sphere.
Now we all have to pay it down.
All the ugliest, most painful failures in crypto are at major points of centralization
A good reminder of what defi is working to improve on
Transparent verifiable, and no central points of failure.
Subject: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
2008-10-31 18:10:00 UTC
I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully
peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.
The paper is available at:
https://t.co/OkL8ZMahcf
Long before quantum computers, there were thinkers with the imagination to lay the conceptual foundation. Quantum pioneers Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch, Peter Shor win the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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Japanese startup AERWINS has developed the world's first flying bike. It is already on sale in Japan and a smaller version will be available in the US in 2023 for $777,000 (€775,400) [read more: https://t.co/mR8lm16IoC]