Understanding Medieval Documents

Understanding Medieval Documents

A translation of the following: Omnibus sancte matris ecclesie filiis Herebertus de Bolebek salutem. Sciatis quod Alexander de Kenebelle consilio et assensu meo dedit et concessit deo et ecclesie...

Posted on 2021-12-06
Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau captured the accurate naturalism developed in the time following scientific advances such as those made by Darwin. Geographic variations may be most vividly exposed in reviewing the...

Posted on 2021-12-03
Merchants and the Tokugawa Political Order

Merchants and the Tokugawa Political Order

The Tokugawa political order was maintained by a system that some researchers have referred to as centralized feudalism. The structure had feudal lords with their own domains, but acted as a...

Posted on 2021-11-22
Taproot: Building a Mixer

Taproot: Building a Mixer

BTC (Core) developers have recently instigated another major change, moving the BTC network further away from Bitcoin. Some reported of an “upgrade” (Tiwari, 2021). The reality, though, is that it...

Posted on 2021-11-17
The Tale of Genji

The Tale of Genji

Having studied theology and mediaeval history before, I come to today’s subject with a particular bias and worldview. Yet, having done so, I see many analogies between The Tale of Genji by...

Posted on 2021-11-15
Banking Old Wine in New Bottles

Banking Old Wine in New Bottles

There is this Bitcoin thing that doesn’t need trusted intermediaries. So, what do people do? Well, you build a series of bucket shop exchanges, the best of which is a joke, like Coinbase, that...

Posted on 2021-10-29
Shares 2.0

Shares 2.0

I want you to imagine for a minute a new form of shares that security companies can issue. The security offering would be one that disincentivises speculative trading. Imagine that day jobbers and...

Posted on 2021-10-05
The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan

The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan

Throughout the world, the 16th century was a time of change, whether Western or Eastern. The Tokugawa shogunate had taken control and unified Japan following the tumultuous upheavals in the later...

Posted on 2021-09-30
Infinite and Unbounded

Infinite and Unbounded

Unfortunately, a major problem stems from a lack of understanding of many common terms today. Turing completeness does not require an infinite tape, and it was not an infinite tape that Turing...

Posted on 2021-09-14