Aavegotchis are collectible 64-bit ghosts that can be leveled-up, traded, and get more valuable over time. Like their namesake Tamagotchis, no Aavegotchi will be the same, due to a very large space of possible combinations of random traits, wearable items, and experience levels that they can have. However, the most…

A brief summary (by allegory) of Carlota Perez’ “Techno-economic Paradigm/Great Surge of Development” model for understanding the evolution of capitalist systems and the occurrences of Bubbles and Golden Ages. I subsequently apply this framework to identifying the phase of the current paradigm (e.g. Age of Information and Telecommunications) and the next revolution in which cryptocurrency, the technology that I have the most experience with, has a key role to play.

I purchased this book because I read glowing reviews about entertaining prose and genuine depictions of how life in China* has changed from the second half of the 20th century to the time of publishing. China’s growing importance in the global economy, its increasingly imported culture in America, coupled with…

TLDR: Use Genius.com API + Beautiful Soup to get song lyrics and write them to a local text file. Future post on interesting things you can do with this data. This is going to be a shockingly easy tutorial that you can follow to collect song lyrics into a local…

Some thoughts after watching this 10 minute interview: As the digital token economy emerges from a dark era of disillusionment, flushing out scams and opportunistic projects, it will revolutionize financial technology, but let us not forget that its emergence will be iterative as all hopeful technologies are. Why do…

“An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense ‘intuitive linear’ view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate). The ‘returns,’ such as chip…

The immense promise of efficient cryptomarkets, the let-down of the current markets, and a solution Cryptocurrencies have bestowed upon internet users the freedom to control and exchange digital assets for the first time. In the not so distant past, average internet users did not have the tools with which to…

Hello! Today, the Carbon Team is happy announce that users of the Carbon Wallet no longer have to pay ETH gas fees when sending or redeeming CUSD. Want to try it out without paying real money? Check out our open-source Ropsten “Faucet” where you can get free test CUSD, send…

I architect distributed-ledger products for Carbon-12 Labs, and I had the pleasure of building and deploying an EOS stablecoin throughout the past month with the resident Carbon hackers. — Let’s get right to the point: I believe that EOS is a developer’s paradise 🏝 and I want to help other developers and craftsman learn about EOS and why it’s a great environment to develop & deploy decentralized applications.