In a democracy, women will increasingly say that they do not need men. A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. This is actually quite true, because they can usually get the government to give

I have had a long conversation yesterday with someone about trading in cryptocurrencies and the requirements of religious law. The person is generally a keeper of religious law, but he was still inadvertently

The economy - the Pope warned - cannot attempt only to increase profits by reducing the work force and thereby adding to the ranks of the excluded. It must follow the path marked out by business leaders,

Technology has primarily, and still displaces, assembly-line workers and paper pushers. Anybody repeating the same operation all over again, especially within the same workday, will eventually find himself

If you intend to spend 1 BTC from a lightning payment channel, you can just fund it with 1 BTC. The counter-party would have to fund his own outgoing channel with his counter-party, but that is another

In my opinion, the number one reason why the DDOS attack on github.com was possible, is because of a documentation bug. The Memcached documentation discourages restricting Memcached to listening to authorized

According to the Venezuelan Petro whitepaper, the Petro (PTR) will be freely tradable. It will allow Venezuela to bypass financial censorship on their US dollar transactions in New York. Venezuela will

Concerning the spike in bitcoin price in December 2017, if you have a look at the schedule of airdrops that took place: 2017/NOV: [2] BTC, BCD 2017/DEC: [14] LBTC, SBTC, B2X, BCX, BTX, BTW, BTF, BTN, FBTC,

In practical use payment: Send money from one address to another multisignature escrow: Send money to an address from which typically just 2 of 3 signatories can send it on (n of m). This contract type

Ethereum is the idea that webdesigners with moderate javascript ability will be able to create new types of smart contracts -- of which only 5 or so exist by now -- between breakfast and lunch, and that

If a machine can do it, then spending a lot of time on learning how to do it, is not particularly fruitful. Therefore, every breakthrough in technology invalidates entire textbooks. The machine can do

Christianity is a rich cultural background, but it has no law. Therefore, you can dress like a total slut because we all know that Jesus still loves you. How are we supposed to manage without a law? I

So, the child is busy memorizing what it is reading in order to sit a test tomorrow where it will write answers from memory. Oh my God, a photocopy machine can do that too. At that point, Erik's 7th rule

Imagine you have person who says: "I will be a bitcoin bank. Deposit your coins with me, and I will make sure to transfer your payments to other banks who service other users." You probably recognize

Venezuela's trade buffers for their oil trade are controlled by New York, where the fiat banksters first extract usurious interest and loan installments for real and imaginary debt before leaving peanuts

I was born into Catholicism. There is no papal decree excommunicating me there. "Extra ecclesiam nulla salus", meaning, there is not much fun to be had in criticizing anything else but the papacy.

The cryptorevolutionary vanguard! The bitcoin political hardcore!

There are so many people in Western Europe, North America, and elsewhere who are "lapsi": sacrificati: who save fiat money in savings accounts thurificati: who take out interest-carrying loans

When you use the electricity grid, you take a plug and shove it into the outlet and expect everything to work. If we ever showed to the masses the complexity behind the outlet, i.e. how electricity production

I am directly at war with myself now. Every other war is obviously, indirectly also a war against myself, but now it is truly a concentrated assault on the enemy. The idea was to do it for 14 days but