Mar 19How To Save 300,000 Dollars by Gaming the USPTO through ContinuationsThis article is for the patent nerds out there, and involves a thought experiment for significantly reducing your patent application and prosecution fees when you have hundreds of ideas and you don’t know which ones you should attempt to get a patent for. …Patents9 min readPatents9 min read
Feb 22Geocentric Celestial Mechanics“The moon’s an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.” ― William Shakespeare When I was young, my father had a telescope. Not a little thing with lenses, but a huge reflector telescope — a tube nearly two meters long and half a meter in diameter…Metaverse11 min readMetaverse11 min read
Feb 4Rodamor’s Bitcoin Ordinals ExplainedAlthough Casey Rodamor helpfully provides some Python code to explain Bitcoin Ordinals, not many people are going to understand how Ordinals work just by looking at a screenful of code. In this article, I explain how each and every satoshi in Bitcoin has been given its own unique number, and…Bitcoin9 min readBitcoin9 min read
Oct 17, 2022It’s Fun To Stare At The DMCA!On Friday the Orthoverse metaverse received a DMCA takedown notice. As a result, this weekend I had a crash-course in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the United States. Which was fun, because I am interested in all forms of intellectual property, even copyright. I also took down the Orthoverse…Blockchain7 min readBlockchain7 min read
Oct 16, 2022PFP NFTs: not priced by the content of their characterEarlier last week, Jason Watkins (knocked.eth) posted a question that I found very thought-provoking: Where in the developed world might you find a dollar value placed on skin tone? The surprising answer he gave: OpenSea Jason’s observation was that there are a number of personal profile picture NFT projects out…Nft6 min readNft6 min read
Oct 15, 2022Ponzi Schemes, Pyramid Schemes, and Multi-Level Marketing“Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme!” With those five words you have inescapably labelled yourself as clueless both about Bitcoin, and Ponzi schemes. But fear not — by reading this article you can educate yourself, and as an added bonus, gain valuable weaponry in your war against all things cryptocurrency and…Bitcoin9 min readBitcoin9 min read
Sep 26, 2022Grandfather of the Metaverse drops WhitepaperToday I woke up to scores of news reports that Neal Stephenson, the author of the science fiction novel Snow Crash in which the term “metaverse” was first introduced to humanity, has released a white paper through his new startup, Lamina¹. A white paper laying out a project plan for…Metaverse9 min readMetaverse9 min read
Sep 20, 2022Brave New Ninteen Eighty-FourOur traditional financial systems ignored, then ridiculed, and are now stepping up the pressure to regulate cryptocurrencies. And who can blame them? The current financial system works perfectly well, and may be as close to the ideal as is possible. It is important that any new upstart matches these ideals…Cbdc7 min readCbdc7 min read
Aug 26, 2022Announcing the Orthofund: investing in our metaversal futureI am thinking about launching a passively-aggressively managed global equity fund dedicated to projects focused on the metaverse, called the Orthofund. The Orthofund will pretend to invest in gigantic, large, medium, small-cap and tiny projects that facilitate or benefit from the growth of immersive virtual worlds across the globe. Its…Metaverse2 min readMetaverse2 min read
Aug 15, 2022Decentralized Identity and Access Management with EthereumDIAM: it’s the obvious acronym for decentralized identity and access management, in which you take the computer software concept of IAM (identity and access management) … and make it decentralized. It turns out that using the Ethereum blockchain, it is a lot simpler than you would think. …Ethereum2 min readEthereum2 min read
