On my personal journey to understand Bitcoin, I made my share of mistakes. A lot of people got involved in broad crypto-trading and suffered significant financial losses. While this essay is not an economic assessment of what we affectionately call shitcoins, I bring it up to say that I turned

My thoughts are frozen, like everyone else These were not the words of the late Hal Finney, the first known recipient of bitcoin mined by Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's pseudonymous founder. Hal would eventually use these bitcoin to have his brain cryonically frozen in 2014, shortly after his death,

I recently celebrated the 35 year anniversary of my Bar-Mitzvah. It was a well-earned coming of age, but it also pegs my birthdate in the eyelet of a modern historical crossroads. An unlikely chain of events was set in motion that would ultimately culminate in an historic bailout of an

ACDC was named for versatile electricity - what was the signal they were spreading? In the 1980s, the Australian rock band AC/DC was considered heavy metal. They were hard charging, rocking, and were mostly a band loved by disaffected male youths. This was prior to their eventual commercialization that

We all know the game Rock-Paper-Scissors, in which 2 children (or 2 adult degenerate gamblers) agree to settle a dispute using a random game with simple rules.  Everybody knows the rules.  Rock breaks scissors, Scissors cuts paper, and paper covers rock.  There are other methods kids use to settle disputes.

A continuum of genius, network effects, and unintentional foreshadowing Phish is a legendary rock band that was formed in 1983 and rose in stature alongside the rise of the internet in the 1990s. They were, and still are, are the torchbearers of the spirit that carried the Grateful Dead and