The Praying Mantis

After three years of working on the problem, the first version of the bitcoin lightning network has come out recently. This network hopes to solve the problem bitcoin currently has with speed and cost.

This is a little experiment anyone can do to illustrate the underlying order that can arise out of random events. Strictly speaking it's a study in probability theory. But more generally it can be used

There have been a few posts on Steemit regarding the idea that our reality is actually a computer simulation, and I have referenced them at the bottom of this post. As I said in my previous post, this

Anyone who looks at using renewable energy sources like wind and solar, knows that a longstanding problem is what to do when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow. During such times very little

OK, so the idea of us living inside a computer simulation is not new. It's been around for some time, and movies such as The Matrix have popularized it. But it's science fiction right? The idea that we

I'm wondering what dollar value for Steem is used when the total amounts in our Wallet section is calculated. I have 8.329 steem power and 0.05 steem dollars and no steem. The current value of steem is

I love whales and dolphins, not only the real ones that gracefully swim in our oceans and inland waters, but also the ones that exist in the Steemit ecosystem. I believe that the whales and dolphins of

Purslane is considered a weed, so why am I writing about intentionally putting a weed in your garden? That's because there are some weeds that are considered to be beneficial weeds. These are weeds that,

I recently read a couple of interesting statistics that really made me think of how precarious the global economy is. One of those is that the amount of debt that exits globally, taking all forms of debt

I recently started getting interested in anarchy and anarchism as a social model. I have been looking at some of the videos that @dollarvigilante put out on his anarchast and have found them to be well

I like the idea of eating the weeds that pop up in your yard. There are many common ones that are edible and easy to identify(a very important point). One of my favorites is Burdock. This common plant

I light a candle to read a book on candles I read that my candle is made of petroleum wax petroleum being made from dead vegetation, millions of year gone vegetation stores it's energy from sunlight lighting

When it comes to dramatically increasing the amount of space exploration that can be done, one of the most challenging things is the amount of energy it takes to escape the earth's gravity. In order to

If you trace our origins back, not only to the beginning of life on earth but to the formation of our solar system, you come to the conclusion that we are literally made of star dust. Our sun is a second

Our solar system keeps getting more interesting as unmanned probes and advances in observational technology advance. It was just announced this week that a new object with a "weird" orbit has

Marcy was a devoted wife and mother. Married to her high school sweetheart when still a virgin, she had not even seen another naked man other than her husband, that is, until recently. Not that she didn't