One of the first criticisms of the bitcoin proposal on the cryptography email list appeared on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008: > As long as honest nodes control the most CPU power on the network > they can generate the longest chain and outpace any attackers. But they don't. Bad guys routinely control zombie farms of...
Month: September 2016
The urban vs. rural dispute
Well they say a picture is worth a thousand words: In this case you probably get the idea. "Urban" is a word which can effectively mean cancer, as far as Gaia is concerned, which is by the way your name. It's hard to forget the look of Denver from high in the Colorado rockies, a...
The big lie of colonialism
Mea culpa: I was told to address colonialism, then this thing sat in my drafts folder for about a year. Lets give it a shot shall we? You probably have some idea what I am going to say now, based on the title. What is the big lie? Maybe one of the many lies told...
Bitcoin is socialist some more
In the first post of the series, we stated the obvious: that exchange commodities form the basis of a social system of sorts, in which participants are at some base level equal in their valuing of a token, and at a base level equal in their presentation of a token. This applies to exchange commodities...