PHILOSOPHY
Thomas Dylan Daniel reflects on the history of Formal Dialectics and looks to the future.
It’s hard to believe two years are all the time that has passed since Formal Dialectics was released at the end of 2018. Authoritarianism, an out-of-control pandemic, and continuous misadventures by top officials in government have characterized the past period in our shared political history and the time has dragged by as we collectively suffered for these mistakes by our political elite.
My reason for investing so much time into the creation of Formal Dialectics was that it seemed philosophy could be used to improve decision-making at the highest levels; it appears the world is not yet ready to engage in such quality cognition. …
BLOCKCHAIN
“Excuse Me, Sir, May I Buy Your Tweet?”
The Cent social media network has launched Valuables, a service that allows users to buy digitally autographed unique tweets. That’s right, tweets as in Twitter. Follow the account here to see the action in real time. Apparently, total offer volume has exceeded $150,000 already, but the network has only seen about 10% to 20% of those offers accepted. I caught up with Matthew and Cameron from Cent to get the inside story about this disruptive innovation.
Tweet that and I’ll buy it.
-Me
Let me take a step back to introduce the wider audience to the Cent community. It’s basically a blockchain-powered online collective for artists, and it enables users to tip one another for creating content on the network in Ethereum or “seed” creators they want to help support. …
As NFL Players draw attention for choosing to immediately invest pay into the leading cryptocurrency, does it make sense for the rest of us to think that way, too?
Q: What’s a big enough deal to change the way NFL players get paid?
A: Bitcoin’s current rally.
Russell Okung has recently decided to invest a major part of each paycheck into BTC. Stories like Russell’s are catapulting crypto back into the limelight and, despite headwinds facing markets more generally, investors are starting to say that 2021 looks like another 2017 for cryptocurrency markets. Suddenly, the future is looking very bright as more people pile into cryptocurrencies.
Wait a second. The future is looking bright? We still have coronavirus! Trump is still president for another few days! An economic crisis is ongoing! …
A review of Jillian Godsil’s new book, which I highly recommend as a personal introduction to the real people behind the cryptocurrency surge.
It’s the end of 2020. And in no way do I expect my casual reference to the contemporary calendar to “date” this article. We’ll be talking about this year for many years to come, for even more reasons than Jillian Godsil gives us reason to in Persons Of Interest: Timestamped In Blockchain. I’ve personally isolated since about March, from everyone except my immediate family. Everything, everything, EVERYTHING! …
President Trump, despite having lost most of his support in government by losing his bid for re-election, is still in office and is desperately setting fires in federal agencies as he attempts to elude prosecution and build a cult by pardoning criminals who are in jail due to their illegal activity in his service. The coronavirus, as I had, along with many other Americans, initially worried might happen, has begun to show signs of mutation even as the vaccine has begun rolling out. …
Hey everyone!
Congratulations. You’ve survived 2020, officially the worst year ever.
I’m feeling very optimistic to get the new year started off right and one part of that for me is continuing to work Serious Philosophy into a publication people go out of their way to read. Medium is one instance of a new form of incentivized social media which may soon begin to noticeably change the way we interact with one another online.
I want to encourage everyone to participate in the Existentialist Book Club and Great Free Will Debate columns, whether by writing an essay or by discussing the work of others and starting conversations around them. Medium is different from Facebook. At Medium, we can do better in the comments section than we do on YouTube. …
A list of the most important philosophical investigations as we begin to try to understand what has changed in the past few years.
10. Metaphysics, by Aristotle
A broad look at policy, technology, and possible future events.
The Democrats, under the recent solidification of the party’s spirit into one man, have been promoting a new and improved political agenda. Buoyed by the defeat of Trump, and hopefully with it Trumpism, Democratic party leadership has a seemingly bottomless well of Republican corruption to parade in front of the American public to promote their agenda. This article will explore current political trends to unpack possible outcomes from the standpoint of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology more widely. …
The American political structures have been stressed to their breaking point. What’s next for the cryptocurrency markets as hyperpartisan reality settles in?
The economic relief bill that has been over six months in the making appeared very nearly to be over and done with as recently as last night, but Congressional leaders say they’ve reached an impasse over measures Republicans are insisting upon that Democrats say are designed to ensure it is very difficult for the incoming Biden administration to pass further relief. The bullish relief sentiment played some role in Bitcoin’s recent ascendancy, leading cryptocurrency investors to wonder about the health of the rally.
It is overwhelmingly likely that stimulus measures are not going to be far from public discussion for the foreseeable future, but as Paul Krugman recently pointed out, the Republican Party seems to have reverted to its pre-Trump playbook by pivoting to overwhelming support for austerity measures that have been proven to not work. Strategically, the GOP seems intent upon stonewalling any policy at all from the Democratic side of the aisle. …
Looking for assets that will provide more return than Bitcoin during the present bull market.
Zilliqa (ZIL) is a sharded blockchain network capable of processing transactions very rapidly. The target market for ZIL is B2B, but they’ve come up with some very clever implementations for the technology and are actively pursuing gaming via their Zilliqa Planet program, which allows users from the Ethereum blockchain as well. Let’s do a little analysis and see how Zilliqa fits into the broader cryptocurrency market, and what sort of things will need to happen for it to reach $1B in market capitalization.
ZIL History
ZIL was founded in 2018, and the chart histories reveal that it was a hit out of the gate after it was launched, peaking at an all time high of $.23 on May 10, 2018. This may not sound like a very high peak, but the market capitalization that went with it was over $1.4B. Despite the speed of the network and the low token price, ZIL has fallen from these heights and recently began showing signs that investor interest was increasing. …
