Growth is uncomfortable. It steps beyond our comfort zone. Every day, do something difficult. Challenge yourself to grow. Work on your projects, work on your body, work on your mind, work on what's true.

Imagine there's no privacy It's easy if you try No dignity below us Above us, only spies. Imagine all the people surveilled all the time Imagine a one-world government It isn't hard to do Nowhere to run

From a recent blog post: Biometrics, artificial intelligence, and cryptography can enhance digital security and identify suspicious transactions in close to real time. This would give law enforcement a

It is now more than a year since the public testnet for STEALTH was promised. Roughly three months since the last update on steemit by @agorise. Zero updates on the official forum, presumably the place

There was this perception some years ago that #bitcoin represented a break away from the traditional system of control by governments and banks. Increasingly, people spoke of more freedom from broke

The Myth of the Privacy Coin Spend any amount of time online reading about #cryptocurrency, and eventually you are bound to read the expression privacy coin. As it is commonly used, it refers to the notion

Privacy in the digital age For a computer geek, I am offline a good chunk of the time - sometimes for weeks. In my modest cabin in the woods, where the natural world reigns supreme, and human influence

Not all is well on Bitshares land As many of you are aware, drama erupted some weeks ago as allegations and accusations started flying in a flurry of accusations, promises and eventually, cliffhangers.

I was pleased to notice today, while going through the changelog for ethereum wallet 0.8.3: PGP-verified releases (#546) This is long-awaited, and probably more useful than checksums itself (although they

Fellow shareholders, Roughly a month ago, I posted a link to a survey intended to gauge community/shareholder opinion on a bunch of subjects related (mostly) to the near-term evolution of Bitshares -

I must begin this one by clearly stating that I am not a big fan of either the IMF or globalism. Local institutions and local government already infringe deeply and often on personal freedom, and for the

The debate has resurfaced several times during the history of Bitshares. Before the 2.0 version, it was even the case that holding Smartcoins was, indeed, rewarded with yield ("interest"). At

Mention the word alimony and a lot of men begin to get uncomfortable. It such a rife subject even in developed nations that political ambitions can be made or broken depending on one's stance about this.

Here is something that should make you pause and think a little bit. By being part of Steemit, you are at the forefront of the fintech revolution currently sweeping the planet. Dangers and opportunities

If you have been around here for any length of time, surely you have shrugged your shoulders and raised your eyebrow, wondering how on earth can something that stupid / shallow / inconsequential ever have

Recent news of free markets adopting XMR due to superior privacy/anonymity features when compared to the better-known cousin Bitcoin have spurred insane price spikes in XMR/BTC and, correspondingly, XMR/fiat.

.. this is the first reaction you have, completely natural, and only later, in retrospect, do you go like, "heh". just thought I would share the moment :-)

As I take a sip of my morning green tea, I shake my head in disbelief, and disgust over a headline that caught my eye. "Encryption under fire in Europe as France and Germany call for decrypt law"

For the past few days I have been working on something that has been on my mind for some time. I want #bitshares to succeed. After the madness of the last half-decade in crypto, these days I really only