Meher RoyThe Emergence of Electronic Life FormsWhile playing with GPT4, I came to believe that we are on the precipice of creating electronic life. Let’s go over what electronic life is…May 6, 2023May 6, 2023
Meher RoyinChorus OneThe Magic of Application-Specific BlockchainsThis is the second part of a 3-piece blog series on the key ideas behind the Cosmos Network.Mar 14, 2019Mar 14, 2019
Meher RoyinChorus OneThe Key Ideas Behind the Cosmos Network (Part I)PBFT, Security Bonds, Validators and DelegatorsMar 11, 20192Mar 11, 20192
Meher RoyBIOTS — an experiment in cheap experimentationSoftware is eating the world. Starting with the 1990s, we have witnessed myriad parts of our economy revolutionised by cheap data storage…Sep 13, 2016Sep 13, 2016
Meher RoyPoW vs PoS: What kind of waste do you prefer?A Tweetstorm explaining Paul Sztorc’s viewpoint that the economic principle of Marginal Return equals Marginal Cost makes pursuit of PoS as…Sep 14, 2015Sep 14, 2015
Meher RoyBitcoin meets Fortuitarchy — Governance by RandomnessHere is a wacky idea.Jun 26, 2015Jun 26, 2015
Meher RoyThe Bitcoin black swanThe specialty of Bitcoin is not its currency or payments technology. To be honest, Bitcoin is a bad currency and less than ideal payments…Feb 18, 20151Feb 18, 20151
Meher RoyA model to makes sense of beliefs and associated Crypto-finance platformsThe Fin-tech community can be classified into holding one of five outlooks for the future. Diagram below plots these outlooks as ‘Levels…Jan 27, 2015Jan 27, 2015
Meher RoyIs ‘The Block-chain Application Stack’ a probable or improbable future?A month back, Joel Monegro from Union Square Ventures authored a set of articles, collectively titled ‘The Blockchain Application Stack’ to…Jan 6, 2015Jan 6, 2015