Viewing profile — jmonegro

Pools create costs, solar removes costs

The difference here is that you can have a stake in the protocol itself by purchasing the token whereas you couldn't do that with the web protocols. Imagine an HTTPCoin in 1995: ho…

> There is no way to measure the value of protocols before Bitcoin The point is not to compare the market cap of Bitcoin or Ethereum to the market cap of previous protocols at all.…

100% on it also going the other way, as we've seen repeatedly whenever there is a hack at the application layer. The market cap of the protocol drops at a higher rate than the "act…

Good use case for http://openbazaar.org

WeWork might not be in the best position if most of their clients are venture-backed startups and they all go away within a few years.

Coinbase does

I don't like that term but I'll bite. Bitcoin's liquidity and network effects, in a nutshell. I don't think a competitor will be able to match Bitcoin on those fronts. And it's not…

You should check out deckbound.com

Just a few for coding experiments, only a few dollars' worth.

I'll try to drill down to specifics in the series of posts that will follow this, but I wanted to set the general stage first. To answer your question what's unsettling about this …

That's where overlay networks come in: a combination of a purpose-specific overlay network (maybe something like counterparty, or maybe something like Side Chains) to make up for B…

You should take a look at what these guys are doing datacoup.com

You can open apps with Siri on iOS.

It's actually a Canadian startup with millions in funding, but this is not their product. It's the Kik messenger, which has a built-in browser. They provide this library to make ma…

I'm rich[1], and I have Adblock. [1] Depending on your definition of rich.

Deflation != hyperdeflation

That is actually /not/ very good for the economy at all. If you abruptly reduce spending to the absolute minimum, sure it sounds very idealistic, but you're grinding most economic …

I just got this e-mail from GitHub: Your GitHub account was compromised as a part of a brute-force password guessing attack, which affected a small percentage of other users. In re…

I'm here to answer any questions, in between today's busy day :) (Resubmitted due to a typo in the URL)