{"id":2281,"slug":"cryptocurrency","name":"cryptocurrency","type":"concept","created_at":"2026-08-08T04:46:31.827254+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":[],"episodes":[{"id":"8947963d-47ea-453b-aee8-7cc3039d44c4","slug":"s11e39-wirecutter-reviews-the-best-person-to","subject":"s11e39: Wirecutter Reviews: The Best Person To Determine Health Insurance Coverage For Most People Is You","title":"Wirecutter Reviews: The Best Person To Determine Health Insurance Coverage For Most People Is You","publish_date":"2022-04-22T16:30:15.475321+00:00","year":2022,"month":4,"season":11,"episode":39,"episode_label":"s11e39","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s11e39-wirecutter-reviews-the-best-person-to/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1641,"context":" … No really, code-as-law\nEd Zitron wrote in\nCode Is LOL\nabout the recent trend for <mark>cryptocurrencies</mark> and DAOs to have hilariously bad loopholes that allow people … ","reading_minutes":8},{"id":"b07b5f52-65f3-41f8-bc35-f562ffa2c3f3","slug":"s11e19-stop-doing-that-its-making-you-look-silly","subject":"s11e19: Stop doing that, it's making you look silly","title":"Stop doing that, it's making you look silly","publish_date":"2022-03-18T16:16:24.075000+00:00","year":2022,"month":3,"season":11,"episode":19,"episode_label":"s11e19","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s11e19-stop-doing-that-its-making-you-look-silly/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1488,"context":" … A very short conversation with a <mark>cryptocurrency</mark>\n\ncrypto: hey\n\nyou: yeah?\n\ncrypto: you want transparency in financial transactions?\n\nyou: sure, sounds good\n\ncrypto: also apes\n\nyou: wait what … ","reading_minutes":7},{"id":"b909faba-d6d5-4ce9-ab2a-af5ed0c15e05","slug":"s11e07-three-and-a-half-short-pieces","subject":"s11e07: Three and a Half Short Pieces","title":"Three and a Half Short Pieces","publish_date":"2022-03-03T16:59:51.768985+00:00","year":2022,"month":3,"season":11,"episode":7,"episode_label":"s11e07","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s11e07-three-and-a-half-short-pieces/","is_premium":0,"word_count":720,"context":" … that the hackers pulled of this theft to demand nVidia remove software-enforced <mark>cryptocurrency</mark> mining limits on nVidia consumer videogame graphics cards, which\nis\ncyberpunk.\n\nThe other \"okay … ","reading_minutes":4},{"id":"9c50a908-282c-4966-8845-739d63465db0","slug":"s09e20-event-horizon-cars-and-trucks-shall-never","subject":"s09e20: Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15","title":"Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15","publish_date":"2021-04-26T23:01:35.806058+00:00","year":2021,"month":4,"season":9,"episode":20,"episode_label":"s09e20","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s09e20-event-horizon-cars-and-trucks-shall-never/","is_premium":0,"word_count":4087,"context":" … These days, that would mean something like (sigh) a blockchain-based, <mark>cryptocurrency</mark> information exchange network. Someone, somewhere out there is imagining (or has already imagined) a CIC-type … ","reading_minutes":20},{"id":"971e0bed-a84f-4006-874e-1d3ba9105a0b","slug":"s09e14-get-a-cozy-data-tiny-house-redundant","subject":"s09e14: Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People","title":"Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People","publish_date":"2021-04-09T22:17:29.605824+00:00","year":2021,"month":4,"season":9,"episode":14,"episode_label":"s09e14","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s09e14-get-a-cozy-data-tiny-house-redundant/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2199,"context":" … in dark patterns? 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Knock yourself out and pay by le … ","reading_minutes":13},{"id":"b87b0c8c-93cc-47e7-be9b-92604c1f7d4b","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-ninety-three-internet-of","subject":"Episode One Hundred and Ninety Three: Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify","title":"Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify","publish_date":"2015-02-18T00:00:00+00:00","year":2015,"month":2,"season":null,"episode":193,"episode_label":"episode 193","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-ninety-three-internet-of/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1646,"context":" … of obligations and charges to each other, all enabled by not just the <mark>cryptocurrency</mark> of the day, but the distributed and validatable ledger that holds it all together … ","reading_minutes":8},{"id":"cc0c5f3e-b7dd-4cb2-a6b8-27bbc4bdf92e","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-five-this-incredible","subject":"Episode One Hundred and Five: This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots","title":"This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots","publish_date":"2014-06-19T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":6,"season":null,"episode":105,"episode_label":"episode 105","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-five-this-incredible/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2882,"context":" … that's not distributed peer-to-peer based <mark>cryptocurrency</mark>. It's the start of centralised control. A single point of failure.\nSo no, we don't have peer … ","reading_minutes":14},{"id":"adcc4aeb-6f97-4286-aa0b-ccd5ee8ce695","slug":"episode-twenty-six-an-alternative-washing-users","subject":"Episode Twenty Six: An Alternative; Washing; Users","title":"An Alternative; Washing; Users","publish_date":"2014-02-27T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":2,"season":null,"episode":26,"episode_label":"episode 26","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-twenty-six-an-alternative-washing-users/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2831,"context":" … need to look much further than our 21cen newsnets to see how the <mark>cryptocurrency</mark> movement or occupy or open source is reflecting that point for him. But again … ","reading_minutes":14},{"id":"ef278e9c-1fc2-428f-8509-50542d176c53","slug":"episode-twenty-four-this-inexplicable-future","subject":"Episode Twenty Four: This Inexplicable Future, Where Did All The Agents Go, Brittle","title":"This Inexplicable Future, Where Did All The Agents Go, Brittle","publish_date":"2014-02-25T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":2,"season":null,"episode":24,"episode_label":"episode 24","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-twenty-four-this-inexplicable-future/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1413,"context":" … The Gathering, Online eXchange, run out of Japan faciliating the exchange of a <mark>cryptocurrency</mark> based on the algorithmically difficult work distributed amongst hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide … ","reading_minutes":7},{"id":"874f4df5-a8b5-4f3b-8940-89040f1d7d2e","slug":"episode-four-any-sufficiently-advanced-economy","subject":"Episode Four: Any Sufficiently Advanced Economy","title":"Any Sufficiently Advanced Economy","publish_date":"2014-01-28T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":1,"season":null,"episode":4,"episode_label":"episode 4","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-four-any-sufficiently-advanced-economy/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1262,"context":" … There was Charlie Stross's blog post[1] about his problems with the *coins[1] which, according to the <mark>cryptocurrency</mark> fans is either partly wrong or completely wrong … ","reading_minutes":6}]}