Mainstream Markets Won’t Lead Main Street to Use Crypto

Everyone’s excited now, we’ve got yet another would-be exchange-traded fund. VanEck, a firm which has been actively trying to create a Bitcoin ETF for a long time, decided to build something far short of it: something a lot like the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust. But it’s being marketed and written about as a “mini” ETF. In...

SkyNet Will Use Cryptocurrency

“With such a wealth of information, why are you so poor?” -Greg Graffin The older I get, the less I fear the coming robot overlords. Unlike Funkenstein, who is in fact a Tall Dwarf, I am a mere human. I’ve seen a lot of what humans are capable of, and after over thirty years of...

The Importance of Incentives in Blockchain Network Design

Following an afternoon of jumping off bridges and eating Thai food, Funkenstein and I ran into an evangelist for another cryptocurrency last night at a pub. We weren’t expecting this. The fellow walked up on us and spoke of Nano in very high regard. Before we knew it we were at his apartment, admiring his...

How To Choke an Economy: Case Study USA

Category: Parody, We Think Our tasks as governors, police, leaders, authorities, and good citizens are many, but one important one concerns this post: to maintain the social order. The status quo must somehow be either maintained or at least only gently departed from on the road to progress. Departures from the social order lead to...

#Blockchain: How Woodcoin Can Revolutionize Content Creation

Entire platforms, like Cent.co and Honest.cash, have been built around the idea of “monetizing content.” What’s Old Is New Again But monetizing content is not a new concept at all. My industry has been doing it almost since the beginning. In the bad old days, advertising was the only way to get revenue online. People...

Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably Dead

Satoshi Nakamoto is better off dead. Ever since Gavin Andresen showed up at the CIA headquarters in Virginia, it’s been evident that something was remiss about Satoshi Nakamoto. Was he a group of government agents? Is he a prisoner of some black ops organization? Why would he hold all those coins so long? This week,...

Market Outlook: Investors Turning to Gold Instead of Woodcoin?

Everyone’s predicting doom and gloom in the rest of the economy. There’s no doubt: years of cheap and free money are bound to fuck us all over. Don Juan Tango down in DC won’t stop pressuring America's private bank to lower interest rates even more. So forget about saving anything, kids. Just print and throw...

A Brief Folk History of Responsible Forestry in Maine

in memory of JK Lyford, Inc. A long time ago, my grandfather and great-grandfather cut wood with two-man saws and stacked it onto sleds hauled by horses. From there they went to a river, where they marked their logs and sent them downstream. You could have multiplied their efforts by a million or ten million...

Woodcoin Mourns The Amazon

The Los Angeles Times reports that the Amazon rainforest is on fire. We at Woodcoin understand the importance of all the forests and all their trees. The Amazon is of particular importance as jungles go: much of it remains undeveloped and unexplored, and new species or even medical cures could one day be found if...