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There could be cases where exceptional talent is kept motivated on exciting cutting edge projects, but those projects don't "contribute to the bottom line", either because the project i…

I used to (half) joke about another option: (d) it could be cost effective for a company to spend money hiring and wasting excellent talent if it prevents their competitors from doing something genuin…

I was at the New Battery [0] in 2014 and they had tried to recreate the control room in the bunker with panels and equipment and figures made out of corrugated brown cardboard, which seemed terribly l…

But VCs normally try to fund genuine businesses - in this case, by suggesting they weren't interested in a "proper business" (as in a legitimate business) and were wanting something to …

One of the points is that settlements systems are private permissioned blockchains, which don't take advantage of one of the main innovations of the public blockchains, i.e. decentralised trust. …

Maybe not government, maybe just humans in general. Decentralisation, blockchain, smart contracts, cryptocurrency, AI and IoT could really start coming into their own further into the future when we s…

I used to think that the blockchain bubble was like the dotcom bubble, in that the core technology was actually genuinely transformative, so that even after the bubble burst and all the over-valued co…

> On the plus side, it's remote. It is actually relatively accessible compared to the other two proposed spaceport sites, which are both on relatively remote islands: Unst on the Shetland Is…

Sorry, was just a sarcastic comment about the limitations of blockchain tech. If it is about a distributed network in general that makes much more sense. Have checked it out.

> The sci-fi book that anticipated what rouge blockchain like programs can do. It would have to be a fantasy book to truly go rogue - if it was sci-fi it would get bogged down in network congesti…

> There is a lot of trust involved in a cryptocurrency transfer. You have to trust your technical competence to securely mount your wallet. You have to trust the wallet you're sending money t…

There's fairly strong evidence that the rise from $6K to $18K was primarily the result of market manipulation [0], so in some senses it isn't a crash more like returning to normality. Althou…

"Evolution is brutal, it requires death" The problem here is simple: people have too much money at stake now. The solution is not so simple, given this is a technology about money. But I d…

Interesting to see Ferranti mentioned a couple of times: "the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer" and "Tim Berners-Lee was the son o…

Welcome to the real world:-) In my view, that's where interesting side projects come in. Either "side of desk" projects at your company, if you're fortunate enough to work for one …

These are just cities in the USA. Suggest the title be adjusted accordingly to reflect that.

NEO was one of the first, but there are many now. The dual token model is also popular with commodity tokens and stable coins. The separation of concerns does help prevent certain conflicts of interes…

That's why some of the more progressive platforms opt for a dual token model, separating the governance token from the utility token. The founders of one of these used the example that you wouldn…

The BBC article the original article links to[0] says he was disqualified for 18 months, which means he is banned for driving on any road for that time and has to reapply for his licence at the end of…

If you've 130 million dollars worth of bitcoin it isn't good practice to keep it all in one wallet. Satoshi's estimated 1 million bitcoins are distributed among many thousands of addres…

First thought that sprang to my mind when I read the headline, which wasn't addressed by reading the article, was "ebay ledger nano scam"[0]. I don't see how you can be sure strang…

Rather that developing robots that fit into existing strawberry farms which are designed to make it easier for humans to harvest, they should be developing new types of strawberry farms which are desi…

Sounds great. Given that in stock market investing you are better off on average with passively managed tracker funds, there does seem to be a big gap in the market for a crypto asset equivalent. Havi…

Also https://buyandhold100crypto.com/ .

There are a couple of cryptocurrency inheritance management startups: https://www.digipulse.io is up and running and https://safehaven.io at the pre-ICO stage. Disclaimer: I …

In summary, I'd say some are either pointless and/or exploitative, e.g. because they don't understand the space or they're trying to issue securities without have to comply with IP…

So are Berkshire Hathaway shares not investments, because you need to sell them to end up with money? What about a savings account with compound interest, or an ETF with automatic dividend reinvestmen…