5 days agoGrandfather 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 read
Sep 20Brave 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. …Cbdc7 min read
Aug 26Announcing 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 read
Aug 15Decentralized 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 read
Aug 11Was Ethereum Hacked by F2Pool?TL;DR: Was Ethereum Hacked by F2Pool? Yes, in the MIT sense of the word “hack”, and probably no, in the alarmist media sense. A distracting story about my local supermarket Every morning in my local supermarket, the staff go around with a sticker gun and slap “30% off” stickers on all the produce that is about to…Ethereum10 min read
Aug 4Do they really want our money?Last month I hauled Microsoft over the coals for their appalling user account system. Today it is the turn of Sony. Here’s a simple task — buy a €4.95 mod for a game on the #Playstation that your son really wants for his birthday. First — 🎧 sony .com or…Gaming3 min read
Aug 4Life (and Minecraft) aren’t fair or safeThe more I think about that press release from Microsoft, announcing that NFTs are banned from Minecraft, the more I think it stinks. …Nfts In Gaming6 min read
Jul 24Building a virtual world is hardTL;DR: if you want to walk among the Orthoverse land tokens, visit https://orthoverse.land But be aware that it is a … is there a letter in the Greek alphabet before “alpha”? No? Okay, be aware that it is a pre-alpha. Or even a pre-pre-alpha. Introduction I am one of those people…Metaverse7 min read
Jul 19The Weak Law of NFTsYuga Labs finally transferred ownership of the Bored Apes Yacht Club NFT contract to the zero address, closing the loophole that allowed them to mint as many apes as they wanted to, and finally returning balance and sanity to the world. …Nft11 min read
Jul 19People have been doing that for ages without a blockchain!Thirty-three years ago, when I started out as a mathematics undergraduate at Cambridge University, I met a second year physics student at a formal dinner. “What if the speed of light in a vacuum wasn’t constant?” I asked him. “It is though,” he replied. “Yeah, but what if it wasn’t…Blockchain6 min read
