You’re standing on the prow of an ocean liner cutting through the icy waters of the North Atlantic. A huge iceberg looms dead ahead. You’ve seen it for some time, but now it’s too close, and the liner too big and fast, to avoid the collision. You quietly make your way to the lifeboats, knowing they’re the only chance for saving yourself and your loved ones. Below decks, an orchestra plays a waltz and oblivious revelers dance.
Most people don’t foresee the world’s inevitable collision with the iceberg of unsustainable fantasy. When it happens, they’ll respond predictably, with panic and cowardice. Those who’ve seen it coming and moved to the lifeboats will experience their own roiling emotions, attenuated by recognition of the logic behind the disaster. While the forewarned have dreaded impact, many will also welcome it, in the way one welcomes an unpleasant medical procedure: let’s get it over with. The motive is not malice, but conviction born of experience that actions have consequences and there’s no escaping them. After seemingly inexplicable and interminable delay, consequences shall arrive, amplified by the tawdry stratagems that promoted delay.
CryptoNinjas Party releases alpha of Fether, an Ethereum client-based light wallet CryptoNinjas Parity Technologies, the developer of blockchain infrastructure for the decentralized web, today announced the alpha release of Ethereum wallet, Parity Fether. Using the Parity Ethereum […]
bitcoin records all transactions on a public blockchain ledger, where entries are transparent, time-stamped, and verified by decentralized nodes, preventing double-spending and fraud.