Money is an instrument that people agree to pay attention to. Whether it’s seashells in Papua New Guinea, Grecian coins made of precious metals, tobacco sticks in a prison yard or chips at a poker table, group attention flows through these instruments just as vibration runs through strings, imbuing them with the harmonic sound of “money” as an agreed upon medium of exchange.
Read MoreIn Time (2011), starring Justin Timberlake, is a bitcoin movie that's worth every minute.
Read MoreOn June 20th, 2024, Pay Attention to Bitcoin secured the “#1 New Release” on Amazon in the Individual Philosopher category.
Read MoreOur focus forms the value structure that makes money work. Attention is the arbiter of value. It is an organizing principle for value. Where more people look, value increases. What we pay attention to we charge with value. Hence the phrase “pay attention.”
Read MoreWhy the big banks can steal your money legally. [Changes to UCC Code 8 & 9 in 90’s. Safe Harbor Act 2005. Secured creditors serving as “protected class” after 2008 financial collapse. Ruling in JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) v. Lehman Brothers in The Southern District of New York 2009.]
Read MoreThe word author comes from Latin, auctor, meaning, 'one who causes to grow'. As a lifetime author, this is exactly the why of writing.
Read MoreWith the forthcoming pending Bitcoin ETF in the United States many financial management firms are front-running this news and have already begun advertising their brands to get a piece of the multi-trillion dollar pie.
Read MoreBitcoin mining notes on napkins.
Read MoreThis essay is entitled, “Paper Cuts”, and it’s meant to cover all the tiny ways that we lose and a few ways we can gain money. Money is energy, it is a time-locked consolidation of power, and represents freedom of choice. Growing one’s amount of money is a reflection of one’s own ability to control their reality, and impress their value upon it in such a way that it can be stored up for future operations.
Read MoreThe nature of measurement is as old as the foundations of this earth, as God told Job in so many words, "Where were you when I sculpted the fabric of timespace? When I stretched a measuring line across it?"
Read MoreDon’t Look Up, the newest craft-work from Netflix, is a Hunger Games meets Independence Day type flick, as if directed by a Christopher Guest of sorts, if his cleverness had jumped the shark.
Read MoreFirst they punt the miners out of the country, now they’ve locked up all the on-ramps to buying, trading, and storing cryptocurrency.
Read MoreThis short piece was inspired by a post I read in Bitcoin Magazine, by Alexander Svetski, entitled, “Bicoiners Are The Remnant”. The post delves into an essay by Albert Jay Nock, entitled, “Isaiah’s Job”, published in 1936 in The Atlantic Monthly, the audio-inclined can download an .mp3 of it. The social-media bent can track Svetski on Twitter.
Read MoreFrom cash in a brown bag at Starbucks to Coinbase’s IPO, cryptocurrency has come a long way.
Read MoreA mysterious effect.
Read More1. Thank you – inside jokes… for only working indoors.
2. Thank you Déjà vu – for being French for, "this is way cooler than the first time."
Read MoreP. mused that the ocean held mysteries. To him, it was all one ocean, in effect, divided by many names, many maps, many territories; the Pacific Ocean was the Atlantic Ocean which is the Indian Ocean which is the Arctic Ocean, we just divided it up by names, names make boundaries, boundaries create stability, support, and the capacity to understand something, but it was all one ocean, and all land on God’s green earth that we knew as continents, were just islands surrounded by the sea.
Read MoreSAN FRANCISCO. At a recent event SEC Director William Hinman discusses why he does not think Ethereum and Bitcoin are Securities. The primary reason is there is no central person responsible for either, and thus not an entity that is issuing anything. In his own words:
Read MoreCompiling my epic three-book novel, Kansas, forthcoming.
Read MoreBlockchain as a cybersecurity solution may be the newfound holygrail of cloud safety. Who would have thought that storing information simultaneously on thousands or even millions of machines would end up sounding more secure than a vault in a basement? That's the power of a decentralized cryptographic ledger.
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