Lifeboat Foundation

134 posts by Philip Raymond

• AI swarm intelligence – January 26, 2020
• IOT needs decentralized, long-range connectivity. It’s finally coming – January 11, 2020
• 50 Year Lie: Sugar industry blames fats – January 3, 2020
• Ejected Star: How fast is fast? – November 14, 2019
• Public Internet Access: Brief history – October 23, 2019
• Scientists may have discovered parallel universe – October 18, 2019
• Greta Thunberg: Most Important Message Ever – September 21, 2019
• Was SHA-256 cracked? Don’t buy into retraction! – September 16, 2019
• Stunning 1st image of Black Hole – September 7, 2019
• Can Bitcoin Transactions be Made Private? – September 6, 2019
• The Race to Own One Bitcoin – September 4, 2019
• Spending Bitcoin in person is easy (What happens in background is elegant) – August 7, 2019
• Crashed spacecraft may have left creatures on the moon – August 7, 2019
• Is there an upper limit to WiFi speed? – July 17, 2019
• What is a ‘paper wallet?’ Do I need one? – July 16, 2019
• About the Fuss: Is Bitcoin really important? – July 14, 2019
• Does decentralized currency thwart crisis intervention? – July 14, 2019
• Can I Check Web Sites Visited by my Kids/Staff? – July 14, 2019
• Profit from Bitcoin with out Investing or Trading – July 13, 2019
• Cars, Gold, Houses, Toys & Stock: What gives value? – July 12, 2019
• Lack of standards leads to new Bitcoin wallet advice – July 10, 2019
• How can Bitcoin be divided into small units? – July 9, 2019
• Why is it impossible to create more Bitcoin? – July 8, 2019
• Update: Building (and placing!) a Bitcoin ATM – July 8, 2019
• BTC Plunge: Why I don’t worry – January 15, 2019
• BTC plunge: Why I don’t worry – December 13, 2018
• Best Bitcoin wallet: Hardware or hosted? – December 11, 2018
• Will we all be using a blockchain currency some day? – November 1, 2018
• You don’t understand Bitcoin because you think money is real – October 25, 2018
• Ric Edelman: Bitcoin will be an asset class – October 7, 2018
• Disruption Experience Nails It – September 25, 2018
• ISS hole: We will look back on Sept 2018 – September 15, 2018
• Drone Assassination Attempt Foreshadows Future Events – August 10, 2018
• How will Bitcoin Work When Mining Rewards Run Out? – August 4, 2018
• Is Bitcoin Erasing 300 years of Monetary Evolution? – July 31, 2018
• NASA director reverses on climate change, after 1 month – July 14, 2018
• Extra PCs laying around? Why not mine Bitcoin? – June 30, 2018
• What will it take for Bitcoin to be widely adopted? – June 21, 2018
• Will governments ever approve of cryptocurrency? – June 19, 2018
• Technical Analysis: Can it predict future asset value? – June 11, 2018
• What Countries use US Dollar and Why? – May 26, 2018
• Selfish Ledger: Google’s mass sociology experiment – May 17, 2018
• The USD is Tulip Mania—BTC is not – May 15, 2018
• Where are the aliens? Solutions to Fermi Paradox – May 9, 2018
• Does Mystery of Quantum Physics Prove God Exists? – May 4, 2018
• What if Apollo 11 had failed? Nixon’s undelivered speech – April 3, 2018
• Divert an Astroid? Yes! But, no need to blast or shove it – March 21, 2018
• Bionic Kidney To Replace Dialysis – March 16, 2018
• John Oliver explains Bitcoin, Blockchain & Crypto (with precision & clarity)! – March 12, 2018
• What sets cryptocurrencies apart from each other? – March 12, 2018
• Building a Bitcoin ATM is easy, but… – March 11, 2018
• What happens to your Bitcoin if you die or forget passwords? – March 6, 2018
• Have there been successful Transaction Malleability attacks? – March 6, 2018
• ICOs & Altcoins rise and fall—yet, Bitcoin endures – February 25, 2018
• Would an ethical government surrender control of monetary policy? – February 22, 2018
• Cryptocurency: Thoughts on a “Korea Krash” – January 16, 2018
• Proof-of-Work Alternatives: Massive electric consumption by cryptocurrency mining – January 14, 2018
• Is Cryptocurrency Good for Government? – January 11, 2018
• Say it again, Bitcoin Investors: “Bad News is Good News” – January 11, 2018
• What if you Send Bitcoin to a Non-Existent Address? – January 9, 2018
• Revenue Neutral model reduces altcoin investment risk – January 7, 2018
• Why does anyone attribute value to Bitcoin? – January 2, 2018
• How does the Blockchain ‘know’ you have printed a paper wallet? – January 1, 2018
• Should we ‘out’ Bitcoin creator, Satoshi? – December 29, 2017
• Is Bitcoin a Store of Value? – December 16, 2017
• Has human evolution reached its peak? – December 12, 2017
• Bitcoin Fair Value Calculation – December 11, 2017
• Bitcoin: up 120% in less than 2 months – December 7, 2017
• Dr. Steven Gundry says plant-based diets are the problem – December 2, 2017
• What can we learn from small fraction of people who own 1 BTC – October 22, 2017
• Fundamental Particles & Forces: What do we know? – October 6, 2017
• Bad News is Good News for Bitcoin Investors – September 14, 2017
• Spell it Out: What, exactly, backs Bitcoin? – September 6, 2017
• AI Firm Focusing on Consciousness Publishes Frameworks – August 31, 2017
• BCH: Did I throw away $$$$? Perhaps… – August 2, 2017
• Solar System Map: Surprisingly deceptive – June 6, 2017
• Reaction: Trump Decision to Withdraw from Paris Accord – June 2, 2017
• Wallet Security: Cloud/Exchange Services – June 2, 2017
• How to Incentivize Bitcoin miners after all 21M BTC are awarded – May 30, 2017
• Sex Equality: I’m With Her – May 23, 2017
• Bitcoin closes in on (US) $2000; Why it matters – May 20, 2017
• Blockchain can dramatically reduce pollution and traffic jams – March 15, 2017
• Perspective of a former “Bitcoin Maximalist” – March 13, 2017
• Bitcoin ETF Buzz Offers Short Term Opportunity – March 5, 2017
• Antonopolous Clarifies Blockchain’s Profound Leap – March 4, 2017
• What Fraction of Bitcoin Value is Driven by Speculators? – March 3, 2017
• MIT is working on 3 BIG Blockchain Ideas – February 18, 2017
• Distributed Objective Consensus: Beyond POW & POS – February 12, 2017
• Blockchain Scalability: Proof-of-Work vs BFT Replication – February 7, 2017
• Getting your First Bitcoin; Choosing a Wallet – February 2, 2017
• Can Bitcoin Flourish with a Capped Supply? – January 3, 2017
• Bitcoin Arbitrage: Can you profit? – December 18, 2016
• Does The Universe Have a Hard Drive? – December 16, 2016
• Is it too late to get into Bitcoin and the Blockchain? – December 7, 2016
• Bitcoin users relax: Quantum computing no match for SHA-2 encryption – November 11, 2016
• Edward Snowden will discuss Trump & privacy: Nov 10th – November 9, 2016
• Diminishing Bitcoin Mining Rewards – October 31, 2016
• Bitcoin Fungibility: A Benefit of privacy & anonymity – October 31, 2016
• Gender Sterotyping? —Not so Fast! – September 6, 2016
• Why is Bitcoin Capped at 21M units? – July 12, 2016
• Do you have a right to view an ISIS Kill List? – June 29, 2016
• Is a Blockchain a Blockchain if it Isn’t? – May 27, 2016
• How Blockchain Will End World Poverty – May 18, 2016
• Can Bitcoin be defeated by legislation? – May 7, 2016
• Bitcoin Pundicy: A Lifeboat Perspective – May 6, 2016
• Photonic propulsion cuts Mars travel time – February 25, 2016
• What has changed since “Pale Blue Dot”? – February 24, 2016
• Is San Bernardino iPhone Fully Encrypted? – February 22, 2016
• The Coming Era of Virtual Reality – February 1, 2016
• Ex-NSA Boss Says FBI is wrong on Encryption – January 14, 2016
• Bitcoin Primer: Don’t Start with Miners – January 4, 2016
• Can Governments Ban Bitcoin? – January 1, 2016
• Quantum Theory: ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ confirmed – October 22, 2015
• Human mini-brains may solve cancer, autism, Alzheimer’s – October 7, 2015
• Stephen Hawking speaks with virtually no muscular movement – September 24, 2015
• A colorful and dazzling view of Pluto – September 24, 2015
• What if U.S. had raised interest rates? – September 18, 2015
• What is a Blockchain? – September 15, 2015
• Will Bitcoin End the Reign of Government? – September 12, 2015
• Scale of the Universe revisits “Powers of Ten” – September 10, 2015
• What gives Bitcoin Value? – September 8, 2015
• Slow death of Universe confirmed with precision – August 11, 2015
• Japanese Court: Bitcoin Cannot be Owned – August 6, 2015
• Interconnected Rat Brains Create Organic Computer – July 13, 2015
• Passfaces: Strong authentication for the masses – July 7, 2015
• Universe might contain millions of black holes – July 7, 2015
• Evolutionary Biologist Suggests Aliens Look Like Us – July 6, 2015
• Major bank admits bitcoin could destroy banks, brokers & exchanges – July 6, 2015
• Pet Peeve #4: Time zones are for locals – June 11, 2015
• Bitcoin Adoption: Series of reactions – June 11, 2015
• Our Universe is Fine Tuned for Life—Why? – June 4, 2015
• Quantum Entanglement: EPR Paradox – June 3, 2015
• Increase Gas Tax as Cartel Price Rises – May 28, 2015
• Could Bitcoin be Dethroned by an Altcoin? – May 26, 2015