Mike Hearn

Distributed Accounting Ledgers

There is an infectious decentralisation epidemic sweeping the globe — the blockchain inspires us all to root out and disrupt the rent collecting oligarchs!

Stop Using Google Trends

Alternatively titled ‘Be aware of context, and maybe start using Google AdWords’ Instead

Google Trends is a very interesting product, as it gives us real-time data on how people are using Google…

This is the best analysis I’ve seen so far for both sides of the debate. Permit me to go off on a tangent for a moment…

I draw some parallels with what is happening in the blockchain space, specifically Ethereum. As a DAO token holder I naturally want my money back… But I care more for the long-term impact of the decisions…

I agree with a lot of what you say. But the reason people dont trust experts and economists and journalists and politicians is a different one. The reason is that in times of increasing inequality it is becoming clear that the system only works for the 1%. People feel rightly left out and everybody who is perceived part of the establishment has…

Thanks for this very interesting post.

Like you, I hope Kotlin team will be able to focus their effort on topics that really matters, but the most important one to me (missing in your analysis) is WebAssembly as discussed here.

Great to hear from you. Glad you’re writing and contributing publicly again. Seems like many of your challenges with Lighthouse and other block chain apps can be streamlined or solved for developers who use the Airbitz SDK to build their apps. Check it out, Mike! ;)

Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency

We have sat here for the last 3 years seeing only infrastructure apps like wallets and exchanges emerge on top of Bitcoin. Why is that?

My theory has been that the scripting language in Bitcoin — the piece of every Bitcoin…

“ The growth in power and size of the federal government has been accompanied by a steady decrease in American’s faith in democracy (source, Pew Research, see left).”

That’s not the full picture.

1. There is general lost of trust in politics. The country size doesn’t matter. Random top google results:

Thanks Mike, good to see people giving it some proper head space. Ultimately though I think your focus to be too narrowed. Concentrating on just the aspirations of some die hard federalists for a USE can obstruct the view of the short to medium term in which nothing is pointing towards a continuation of the status quo.

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