Some blockchain developers decided to build an ASIC miner. They wrote this long post explaining what they learned about building hardware, secret ASICs, ASIC-resistance in cryptocurrencies, and the future of mining. | learn more
“Every second on Earth, 100 lightning bolts strike the planet. That’s about 8 million strikes per day, and 3 billion a year, on average. But as this map of nearly 9 billion lightning strikes shows, lightning is not evenly distributed […]
Etherisc is developing a platform for decentralized insurance applications. They recently published this post to introduce readers to risk pooling and its benefits. | learn more
Max Zamkow, investor at Ugly Duckling Ventures, offers advice for entrepreneurs working to raise their first round of capital. He says to “fake it ‘till you make it”, and by that he means to start writing regular investor updates even […]
Long-time readers are familiar with my aversion to podcasts. So, when I recommend one it must be special, right?! This podcast by ARK Invest features one of their analysts, Sam Korus. He’s incredibly knowledgeable about air taxis! In this interview, […]
Real estate development giant Sterling Bay is teaming up with the Ricketts family to bring a United Soccer League team to Chicago. They plan to build a new 20,000 person stadium in the new Lincoln Yards development. | learn more
Horses were, for a long time, quite prominent in the US: 25 million horses for 100 million people in 1915. They were often the most valuable asset of a family, and they were fairly easy to move. So, horse thievery […]
“Launched in 2016 with the sprawling ambition to build large genomes, the synthetic biology initiative known as Genome Project–write (GP-write) is now, slowly, getting down to specifics.” The original project’s aim was “to design and assemble an entire human genome from […]
Long-time readers might know that I’m very bullish on lab-grown meat. This article on Gizmodo from about a year ago tries to add a bit of sobriety to the idea, pointing out that it’s not yet on the market (among […]
The work needs to be replicated, but if confirmed it flies in the face of the long-accepted view that memory is stored in synapses between neurons. Instead, this research points to memory being stored in RNA. | learn more