The Context is an ongoing weekly Patreon series that gives a deeper understanding of the implications of current events, and technologies shaping the world.
Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and now Web3. Will we ever stop? Probably not, but Web3 is going to represent an important evolution of what we can do on the internet. When the internet was born, it was for academic researchers, for technologists, specialists. With the introduction of the World Wide Web and the Mosaic browser, […]
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Don’t believe that Bitcoin is wasteful. We are building the global financial and economic infrastructure for the 21st century, the Bitcoin Network. There are superficial arguments that Bitcoin must be stopped, but they are misplaced.We are building the global financial and economic infrastructure for the 21st century, the Bitcoin Network. When you think about money
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Do we want resilient systems? When is it necessary to aim for them? And if the consequence is a certain trade-off towards a decrease in efficiency? How do we establish the right balance? We live in a complex world, and this has been highlighted for many of us during COVID, because the intricacies and the
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Learning not only the pieces of knowledge, but the additional tools that are dearly needed in order to be active, thriving components in today’s and tomorrow’s society is key. Evidently, current academic and educational institutions are not up to the job, while gamification, Learn to Earn and other components in moving to a decentralized system
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Bitcoin and mining are going to deliver an increased degree of sovereignty, not only to individuals, but to entire nations. Bitcoin and mining are going to deliver an increased degree of sovereignty, not only to individuals, but to entire nations. Today, we are living in an energy financial system that is unsustainable, it must and
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What are the highlights of Artificial Intelligence development in the past year or so? I define Artificial Intelligence as a Jolting Technology. Rather than a constant rate of doubling, like the two years of Moore’s Law, AI progresses with a shrinking rate of doubling. Its rate of acceleration is increasing. Stanford University with Open AI a
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We are creating digital realities and must enrich them with the kind of features that can benefit us. NFTs are good for objects, but what about ourselves? We have been tracking who we are forever. The basic example is presenting yourself by stating your name to someone while shaking their hand. We have also developed
Digital Identities: true names, pseudonyms, anonymsse Read More »
There is an explosion of interest around the concept of the metaverse, and it is worth describing its various features and the parameters that can define how different people may interpret it. What is the hardware and the software that can support it, the new business models that can be disrupting the existing leaders of
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A month ago, I became a grandfather. I am very happy! This is the start of what I would call the completion of my genetic duty. Congratulations to Jacopo and Sara, and welcome Emily! The role of grandparents plays an important foundation in human society. It frees up the parents either for a precious few
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I recently went through the process of renewing my driving license, which made me think of two important components of our future infrastructure. One, the oracle problem: how to connect external data sources to the consensus mechanisms that blockchains offer. Second, whether this would be the last time that I needed to renew my license
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