Essays

The exchange rate for bitcoin is madly swinging from the absurd to the incomprehensible. It’s a classic market bubble that doesn’t do justice to the actual promise of blockchain technology. Its price increase is solely the result of supply/demand, just as it was for skyrocketing values for tulips and South Sea stocks. I’d Read more…

The goal of an activist’s failed attempt to scam the Washington Post into sourcing a bogus story was to make people think any news it published could be “fake.” Instead, it revealed a possible way to assuage that distrust. Imagine if every news story came with a legend that explained how it came to be; think Read more…