There’s some misunderstanding around how the electricity use of Bitcoin is…
There is a problem that is getting overlooked in the grand visions of a crypto-currency fuelled future of peer-to-peer payments. One that has put a wrench in adoption and that few people are addressing.
By now, we are all familiar with the concept of Basic Income. The need for a basic income is borne out of an inability to imagine a future that is dramatically different from the one we are in today. In today’s world we have one full-time job (or perhaps 2…
As someone who cares deeply about climate change and efficiency, the fact that so much energy is being spent mining for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies causes me pause. However on deeper inspection the energy used by bitcoin in particular is not the…
Blockchains are the becoming relevant in the world of finance and spreading into many more areas as the core ideas get expanded upon. The value of a global decentralized peer-to-peer currency is immediately obvious to anyone who has tried to purchase from, or sell to people…
The world runs on open source software built and maintained by volunteers. The body of work given away as free software represents billions of dollars worth of donated man hours. This work ultimately comes from men and women who…
Free and Open Source Software is the foundation that powers everything on the internet. The robustness of this software is critical to the whole economy. As I write this, Petya ransomware is infecting major corporate networks and racking up a terrible cost.
Alan Kay is a computer scientist and polymath best known for his work at Xerox PARC. I recently watched an inspiring talk he gave for startup school that discusses the environment required for creating innovations.
From talking to many people over the last few months about Open Source (who are not software developers) it was…
Anyone who writes software for the love of it knows, or will eventually know, burnout. Writing code is mentally taxing work…
