This 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. …

“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…

Although 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…

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…

Earlier 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…

“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…

Today 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…

Our 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. …

I 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…