There are many successful examples - The Underground Railroad I'm with you on that thinking

both transparency and secrecy could be used to take away the lever someone might use to harm you. Both can be useful tools, no? And transparency is the lower energy and thus easier of the two states to

Simple, yet to me, incredible linkage you made between secrecy being a high energy state and transparency being a low energy state. Are we in western societies reaching towards peak-secrecy?

Cool! Do you know what sort of owl it is?

Carbon credits are, like most government regulations, a well-meaning attempt at dealing with a tragedy of the commons - the polluting of a common resource (the atmosphere) that no one person or country

Clearly the bear was hungry, and whether or not its suffering was ONLY due to hunger, we know many bears are dying of starvation because of studies like this: “In 2002, a World Wildlife Fund report predicted

“No, there is NO way to properly short the bitcoin “bubble”. Any strategy that doesn’t entail options is nonergodic (subjected to blow up). Just as one couldn’t rule out 5K, then 10K, one can’t rule out

Interesting! I don't understand futures beyond their basic purposes - but I'm wondering here if, although some said that on Sunday the market had priced in fears regarding bearish futures contracts being

Why aren't traders being given the option to short the price?

Great PSA! Greed leads to fear, fear leads to impulse buying, impulse buying leads to the broke side of the force...

mintingcoins - looks like the wrong video (#94) is posted here!

I'm new to the space, and your analysis is bringing me up to speed quick! Why oh why didn't I pay more attention after reading Neal Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon in '08 - 1 whole year before bitcoin