Sebs Solomon—June 23, 2022 — At some point last year, while I was reading a blog post by Vitalik Buterin about Futarchy — a theoretical government controlled by speculative markets — I came across Robin Hanson and the extropians. In the post, Buterin claims that a long-term benefit of technology and the concept behind decentralized…

Sebs Solomon — June 10, 2022 — This post can also be found on siliconicarus.org — thank you Raul Diego for publishing it). The Central African Republic (CAR) recently added Bitcoin as a legal currency, tokenized natural resources, and even created a “cryptocurrency economic zone” called Sango — following in the footsteps of El Salvador. The CAR…

Sebs Solomon—June 10, 2022 — I’m listening to an interview with Max Blumenthal and Jimmy Dore about the “Bilderberg Meeting” and Max’s attempt at getting into the Mandrin Oriental Hotel (in Washington, DC) where the meeting was being held. I’m giggling to myself while listening because they both seem so surprised that an entire hotel…

Sebs Solomon—May 17, 2022 — Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed in ideas that can be described as “materialistic metaphysics”—based solely on the pursuit of pleasure. He defined pleasure as the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. …

Sebs Solomon — May 13, 2022 — I was asked an interesting question on twitter recently and it ignited a topic of conversation that I had never explored from such an angle. A lovely gentleman named James asked: If the Roe vs. Wade argument is setting the stage for synthetic humans and will that spark the conversation…

Sebs Solomon—April 24, 2022 — I recently watched a presentation given by Erik Prince in 2017 at Oxford Union. He talks about the history of private military contracting in the United States, resurrecting the British East India Company by modeling private organizations after it, and creating a Development Finance Corporation (DFC) that is less like…

Sebs Solomon—March 29, 2022 — In August of 2021, Rajesh Bansal and Somya Singh released a working paper for Carnegie Endowment, titled China’s Digital Yuan: An Alternative to the Dollar-Dominated Financial System. I had been looking into China and the BRICS countries (which I covered here) and I found this paper to be a thorough…

Sebs Solomon—March 25, 2022 — The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) accounts for 90% of the global output in semiconductor chips. Meaning, 90% of all advanced semiconductor chips ever made (that are used in phones, computers, game consoles, modern cars, IoT sensors, bitcoin mining, and other electronics) are manufactured by one company in Taiwan that…

Sebs Solomon—March 6, 2022 — In the recent Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy hearing in congress, the Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, stated the U.S. can try to make the dollar more attractive to other countries by “promoting the rule of law”—meaning more regulations on Main Street under the guise of “laying…