Ryan Bozarth

These tasks, after all, are far higher stakes than mailing a wedding RSVP or a thank you note. Mess up your health insurance? You could be on the hook for hundreds of thousands in medical bills. Screw up your taxes? You might get hit with an audit and fines or worse. Skim the contract you signed with that client? You might later wish you hadn’t skimped on the legal fees. And the worst part is you never get any certainty. There is a part of your cognitive load that will …

Depending on what sort of unconventional work you’ve chosen, you will be dealing with your own health insurance, your own retirement plan, your own legal agreements, your own taxes, your own invoices. You will find yourself in waiting rooms at your local bank trying to open accounts. You will spend hours in the infinite loop of the IRS, attempting to file for an employer identification number. You will painstakingly compare health insurance policies only to realize you missed the open enrollment window. If, to me, it is a marvel when my mail gets where it is going, it is nothing short of a miracle tha…

For the Internet, you bulk purchase these packets in advance, via a monthly bandwidth plan with your ISP or carrier. These kinds of plans don’t exist yet for blockchains, in large part because demand is so volatile t…