fintech

At the time of this writing, the price of Bitcoin is up again and, the “blockchain” is part of a stack to over 5,000 startups. But what exactly is the “blockchain” proposition? Most information out there seems to be repeating words like “decentralized” without a coherent explanation, others are simply selling pre-packaged notions of monetary theory. Even “big brains” like Robin Hanson and Bruce Schneir don’t seem to understand what exactly the blockchain proposition is 1...

When Bill Gates was asked in a Vox interview 1 on what he feared most, his reply was not climate change or nuclear war. Mr. Gates was most worried about pandemics, deadly diseases that spread quickly over large regions, he goes ahead to cite some of the biggest “death charts” of history. These “death charts”, where several spikes in which a large numbers of people died in a very short period....