Posts by leandrew

Successful cryptocurrency investors are teaming up with Blue Frontiers and the Seasteading Institute to build a community on a man-made island in international waters. While the seasteading movement has recently seen a lot of progress in the form of developing technologies and finding a host nation for the first seastead, the movement has lacked sufficient funding…

It’s the premiere episode of “Game of Thrones” season 7.  Everyone in your living room shuffles around, giddly positioning themselves for the television event they’ve waited an entire year for.  Not patiently, either. They’ve waited like children in a DMV. They’ve waited like a dog next to the door when you say “outside?” At last,…

Humanity is on a trajectory to become a multiplanetary species like so much of our science fiction depicts.  As this transition happens, there will be a shift in how we do commerce and collaborate with those on and off the planet. Can fiat currency make the leap or will cryptocurrency prove to be the economic…

Currently, the vast majority of human beings on the planet are stuck trying to fulfill base survival needs for themselves and their loved ones.  Being stuck in the bottom level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs renders them unable to contribute to society and the improvement of the human enterprise.  What happens, then, when improvements in…