By someone straddling between the real Hong Kong and a Hong Kong in the cloud Article reviewed: https://1729.com/how-to-start-a-new-country/ SUMMARY: The article does a clarifying job laying out the foundational questions of what makes a cloud country. The version of citizenship in the cloud it laid out echoed with what suppressed citizens in Hong Kong have…
Tag: Cryptocurrency
I Made A “CleanER” NFT Art
NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. It is a type of cryptocurrencies. If you don’t know what this is, start here. I have been struggling to keep up with the blockchain/crypto world. It felt so foreign. It was complicated. I couldn’t understand it. So when NFT art became a thing, when Beeple sold a collage of…
FOBL circa Jan 2021
Fear of Being Late. There are three things that would make me anxious. Crypto, specifically being late in social coins such as Roll for my creative endeavours. Clubhouse, or specifically being late in the evolution of creative audio Pseudonymity on blockchain. People say don’t worry about being late. Just have good content. I know. But…
Bitcoin and Coconut Oil
image source: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RbenG-X4ul0/maxresdefault.jpg A few days ago, a few of us, all middle-aged men, had a meal. We talked about Bitcoin, coconut oil, and also kids/sneakers/other entirely unimportant things. Typical of most conversations in life, we tiptoed around these topics, scratched the surface, carefully not to go too deep, because instinctively we all knew some…