The Game of Chicken
There is only one way to play chicken. And, it is best, if others know what game you are playing. First, you build up capital. That is, enough high explosive (or the equivalent in business terms)...
There is only one way to play chicken. And, it is best, if others know what game you are playing. First, you build up capital. That is, enough high explosive (or the equivalent in business terms)...
As Bitcoin does not need to be held or processed by a financial institution[1], many people have concluded that they can bypass tax obligations[2] with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. There...
Continuing on an early set of drafts that I will publish fully in time, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3265157 The concept of a Turing machine has been well defined {[17],...
The syllogism goes - Socialism has been a failure everywhere it has been tried; This fact is known and everyone acknowledges this (including the socialists); and We need to try more socialism. ...
Bitcoin is a “crypto-currency”, a form of digital or virtual currency using cryptography to control its creation and operation. Bitcoin was first launched in 2009, when the Bitcoin algorithm was...
Today I have released a draft of a paper I started in 2014, “Bitcoin: A Total Turing Machine”. It is available on SSRN. This is an intro. Download it if you want to read more. Bitcoin: A Total...
In this post, we look at what it would take to create a Bitcoin (BCH) Vending machine. In order to create a Bitcoin vending machine, we need to think about risk. This is not a desire for perfect...
The last week, another of the patent applications related to my papers received a grant. This research proposes a methodology to encrypt the content of a device (for instance, a laptop) without...
In this scenario, Bob decides to publish his ownership of an asset (e.g. his home) onto the Blockchain. Nothing else is done at this stage; it is simply an asset that may then get used in...
In this situation, Bob enters into a contract with a pool of builders to deliver a new property, and specifies a number of conditions within the contract that require independent sign-off (the...