Why Internet security matters

Experimenting with a new micro blogging app on iOS. It’s still in Beta. You can try it here.

Niche social networks have a chance of gaining active user base as long as they’re built with users in mind.

Mastodon is a very good example of the above.

Playing with a new social networking protocol called Farcaster

Ohio, White Noise, and the Power of Words over Things is another brilliant documentary by the talented duo behind Truthstream Media. A must watch!

web3:// > http://

A view of the lake in my hometown

What would you do if you only have 100 posts available to share?

What is Bitcoin

Last year I obtained ‘petar’ as a Telegram username, and I’m thrilled to own and use it!

When I started using Micro in 2020, my personal name Petar was taken as a username here.

Surprisingly, the previous owner changed his Micro username from ‘petar’ to another one, and I was lucky enough to claim my personal name as a Micro username recently.

When Twitter, though?

What happened to Shia LaBeouf

Take a walk on the milk road

To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger.

Dennis Galiatsatos

We’re living in a clown world.

She imagined herself as an ape’s neighbor in a grungy city where the primates roam free as citizens. She saw “an ape that’s kind of jaded and tired of life but has all the money and time in the world, and hangs out at a metal bar” and ran through fictitious interactions with the creature. “That’s where that idea came from.”

All Seeing Seneca

Now, what if instead of being in a cave, you were out in the world - except you couldn’t see it because you trusted that the world you saw through the prism was the real world.

Modern day version of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Having everything is having peace of mind and that comes from having less.

Tim Denning

Fake it ‘til you make it

One of the survival traits of human beings is psychological homeostasis, or the tendency to get used to circumstances quickly, both good and bad.

Arthur C. Brooks

Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield. And it might be the dominant emotion of 2021.

Adam Grant

The percentage of illicit transactions in crypto is minimal (less than 1% according to one report from Chainalysis), and falling. In context, estimates of illicit activity conducted through traditional intermediaries range between 2-4 percent of global GDP.

Michael J. Morrell

As a global society, we spend an incredible amount of time thinking about who will lead our country and very little time thinking about who will lead our money.

Ric Burton

Got time?

Cartoon by Gone Into Rapture

Silk was the one of the first true international currencies, facilitating trade between nations, tribes and kingdoms like never before in history. At other times, salt was so powerful as a form of money that the word ‘salary’ comes from the salt rations given to Roman soldiers known as the ‘salarium argentum’.

Daniel Jeffries