I’m not a political animal. I lean libertarian (not the party, but the ideas), and would like less government interference in well… just about everything. Government should not act like a parent trying to protect its children from self-inflicted harm. Government is not our parent. …

I am not a Bitcoin maximalist. I want to be clear that this is not an endorsement of all crypto-currencies. Some have ponzi-like characteristics, some look like get-rich-quick schemes for their founders and/or VC investors, and a small few are easily recognizable outright scams. Let’s define some terms, so we…

The content for this article is mostly from whyravencoin.com, a community operated website. There are so many great reasons. Ravencoin makes tokenization of everything from art to real estate, easy, legal, and transferable. RVN’s human-readable asset names provide branding, provenance & value. Best of all NO Smart Contracts are required. …

I’ve decided it is time to move on from Ravencoin ($RVN). Why? Ravencoin was built from first principles. Much like Bitcoin, it assumed the rules of supply and demand, and incentives based economics. I’ve been reading modern economics, and apparently the first principles just don’t apply anymore. How this happened…

What do states want? Most states want innovators, talent, and treasure to migrate to their state. Attracting the right innovator might provide the state hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of jobs. The way to do that is to have the most friendly environment. This can include things like low…

In order to craft good legislation, it is critical to understand some first principles of crypto (Digital Assets). “Crypto” as it is used here, includes Bitcoin, Ravencoin, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, and similar open-source projects. …

This is an article that I wrote on September 3, 2014. link Republished here to address some questions about value and mining difficulty after Ravencoin’s first halving yesterday. I have not edited it, so it still references Bitcoin, but the same logic applies to Ravencoin and other proof-of-work crypto currencies. …

Join me on this journey of understanding NFTs. We’re not diving into the technical details of NFTs, but the why of NFTs. What is an NFT? The acronym stands for of Non-fungible Token. Fungible means that one thing can easily be replaced by another of the same thing. So, non-fungible…

Digital dividends are blockchain-asset dividends issued legally and 1:1 to shareholders of a public company. They have the potential to reconcile sloppy accounting and force a reconciliation with naked short sellers. How? A bit of background. In 2015, I worked for t0 (now tZero) where I learned quite a bit…