BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes bitcoin complexity computer
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent. Dan Kaminsky consequencedevelopmentfailure Change image and share on social
It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream. Dan Kaminsky fairlyhackmainstream Change image and share on social
Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing. Dan Kaminsky acceptastonishconsequence Change image and share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social
Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry. Theodore Isaac Rubin angerangrycircuitous share on social
Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had. John Battelle accustombitcoinculturally Change image and share on social