Bitcoin markets have been very volatile in the past few days with the UK based Intersango price peaking at 10.06 on the 17th August 2012 before dropping to just over 7.5 and now setting back to around 8.2 as I…
Bitcoins for Sovereigns and Children
Author: lincoln
Pay the Machine
Let’s face the facts: our money system isn’t working but I think I have a simple fix to all of this based on an idea of labour auto-sufficiency that will drive commerce, increase the labour pool, reduce poverty, but at…
Is Maybe Never
Reality is what is left when all other possibilities have failed to exist. We know this for a fact with the process of natural selection and it appears this way with other natural processes. What is possible in this universe…
Physical verses Information Theoretic
The Credodia project‘s first program is storage of the memories that make up you. There is a goal that in time the recovery of these memories from storage, the copy to a new platform and then the re-animation will be…
Twenty Questions – Forking strawman
A rather odd claim comes from a doctor, Peter Saunders, that in the past 40 years he hasn’t heard any good answers to certain questions that he has asked of Atheists. This is an odd claim because atheism is to…
Monarch as an Anarchy
I have consistently promoted our British monarchy but at the same time I say to people that I subscribe towards an anarchist view when I look at state systems. They don’t understand how these two can be reconciled so I…
The Conflict of Interests
Jimmy Wales was at the recent Pontifical Academy of Sciences meeting held at the Vatican towards the end of April in 2012 and he was quoted by the Catholic News Service as praising the Pope John XXIII’s encyclical “Pacem in…
Continuity of Memory
We are human because of our technology. Few of us can remove all of our technology and live outside in nature. In the winter most of the population would be dead of hypothermia in hours and in summer we would…
The Charity of Avarice ?
It’s my view that the ostentatious Christian religions would have been obsolete in Europe decades, if not centuries, ago if it wasn’t for an incredible array of taxes and government grants and funding. It’s a mixed blessing because I like…
Evolving existence
The answer to human existential problems becomes very easy if you take responsibility for these. It’s a simple step for anyone, but a vast leap for all, Who gives us purpose ? The answer is that we give us purpose.…