Blog is Moving

I’ll have more details shortly. But this blog is being relaunched as “Distributed Agreement”. Head on over to DistributedAgreement.com and check it out. But be patient, the relaunch is not yet official.

Censorship and Censorship Resistance

People in the blockchain space often talk about censorship and censorship resistance. It is often claimed that censorship resistance is one of the key properties that decentralized, blockchain systems can provide at a level not possible with previous technologies. But exactly what is censorship resistance?

Kissing Frogs

Maybe retire was too strong a word.

Toz Retires

So I said I wanted to start my own blog, and my husband, J.K. gave me some lame excuse to use his, like I couldn’t be trusted with my own, like I wasn’t responsible enough for my own blog, like raising our kids to adulthood, knowing where the dog is, and being his wife wasn’t prerequisite enough… so… to prove his point, I quit my job, quit NP school and quit taking my meds.

What does all this have to do with cryptocurrency? Oh yeah, I took over our portfolio and began trading.

I don’t know why I ever thought I could be a nurse. I passed the psychopath test, first try. I have a deeply honed hatred for my fellow man, and can’t even sit beside of people in a movie theater, why would I have EVER thought I could be a nurse? So maybe I will be better at this. I’ll let you know.

Practical Byzantine Agreement

How might we use a blockchain to solve a real-world Byzantine agreement problem?

The war on financial crime

Are we fighting terrorism and money laundering deaf and blind, stifling innovation, and violating rights?

The global war on cash

Governments around the world are deliberately making it as difficult as possible to use cash. At the same time, financial institutions are cooperating to refuse service to customers for shocking reasons, for example, that corrupt regimes have designated them “terrorists” just because they oppose that regime.

Some hard numbers

My solar power system has now been fully operational for one month. My electric bill is about $330 less than it would have been without the system.

Are Bitcoiners against innovation?

Today, a company I advise, Chronicled, got some good press. But then something happened that really bothered me.

The war on cash

Recently, I posted a tweet, “The war on cash means you can buy a coffee if, and only if, an FI can make a profit on it.” The tweet was prompted by another tweet from a coffee shop that only accepts credit cards.