Excited/anguished to share a year's worth of reporting, and a lifetime's worth of disillusionment. I hope you'll take some time to read.

I have been thinking that we need a more sympathetic approach to the alt-right movement and wave of more controversial viewpoints and values across the US and Europe. While we should be tough on xenophobia, the situation that they are _...Read More_

“What Americans young and old are abandoning is not so much the promise of family, faith, and national pride, but the trust that America’s existing institutions can be relied on to provide for them.”

TLDR: vote buying is a real problem and it is not trivial to build bribery-resistant on-chain voting. This is why any kind of on-chain voting is a bad idea and should only be used for signaling, not decision making. “The blockchain space _...Read More_

The End of Reality - The Atlantic.

I suppose now that we are fully exposed to how embarrassingly tragic the American political structure has become totally unhinged we find ourselves questioning our most basic belief systems in a somewhat progressive context.