A personal exploration of a predominantly Western affliction, effects on individual & society, and its origins in Enlightenment philosophy — (Warning: this is a somewhat edited version of a single audio recording I did about two years ago and hence more an outdated statement of belief than a coherent and well cited academic article. It has been sitting in my draft folder since then and now is as good a…

Welcome to the blog! Zeptr is an open access research project at the intersection of language, technology, and meta­politics. This blog serves as your main gateway into the project. Here, you will find articles, quotations, commentary, and other forms of discourse around powerful ideas primarily from sociology, philosophy, as well…

Today, Neufund in collaboration with Lacore Rechtsanwälte and Wardyński Partners is announcing its plans to form a European Regulatory Initiative on blockchain and related technologies. As our first step in establishing this initiative, and together with an initial group of collaborators and co-signatories, we are publishing the ‘EUREG Report’ to…

Two weeks ago, we announced our plans to tokenize Neufund’s Employee Stock Option Plans and have it governed by a smart contract. We released our code on GitHub to the public and answered questions from the community. But the contracts weren’t live yet. Yesterday then, finally, we took the plunge…

On Wednesday, Neufund launched the first ever Employee Stock Options Plan on Ethereum-based tokens. It is a first, smaller version of — and test case for — an ultimately much larger idea: securities (of all types) on the blockchain. Of course this in itself is no small feat, and potentially…

Announcing the next call for applications — Today, Exosphere is proud to announce the third edition of the BitNation Scholarship! What started as an experiment to bring together the members of both of our communities and enable outstanding individuals to create ground breaking projects, has since grown into an established program benefiting not only the recipients, but…

At this summer’s Exosphere Academy we had a wonderful participant by the name of Lucas. Initially a member of the Philosophy Stream, he decided to switch to Biohacking after learning about the cool stuff that its members planned to work on. …

This is a series exploring the theory of science (short “TOS”) and related ideas, inspired by Tiago Forte’s series on the Theory of Constraints. Like he, I don’t yet know how long this series will go on and will also challenge myself by constraining (hah!) each post’s length to a…

Blockchain people, listen up! I get it… I get it that you love this technology and the potential it holds. I like it, too! It allows me to transfer information and value from one end of the globe to another, securely, verifiably, cheaply, and within seconds, all without an intermediary…