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Cryptocracy: A Monero Primer

Most cryptocurrencies offer their users some degree of privacy and anonymity. While a wallet address can sometimes be tracked, and transactions can be monitored...

Cryptocracy: A Dash Primer

In active, real-world usability, one cryptocurrency is queen to Bitcoin's king. Dash, previously Darkcoin and XCoin, has integrated their currency with online m...

Potentiam – Disrupting the Music Industry through Blockchain Integration

It has been a long and bitter fight, wresting control of music creation from draconian music labels and uncaring corporations. The turn of the millennium saw pe...

Cryptocracy: The Top 10 Cryptocurrencies under Bitcoin

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been writing up primers for the top 10 cryptocurrencies under Bitcoin, based on market cap. Now that those are finished, I’m putti...

Cryptocracy: An IOTA Primer

From the time that the first blockchain was created, it was inevitable that someone would try to create a successor. Easily the most prevalent of the would-be r...

Cryptocracy: A NEM Primer

There are myriad options for structure in a cryptocurrency’s development team. A few of the previous primers have covered blockchain companies, non-profits and ...

Cryptocracy: An EOS Primer

As we go through the list, we’re starting to get out of the digital currency assets and into the more conceptual product cryptocurrencies. The top contender in ...

Cryptocracy: A Stellar Lumens Primer

There is a commonality among almost all of the top cryptocurrencies; they are intended to be used as a digital currency. While this may sound obvious, many of t...

A Brief Rundown of the Senate Committee Hearing on Cryptocurrency

There's a lot of confusion about what came out of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing this morning. Some have reported the statement...

Cryptocalypse Now: A Survival Guide for the Cryptocrash

So you’ve decided to stick around. You’ve eaten your losses and consolidated your investment, and now you’re looking around at the desolate landscape wondering;...

Cryptocracy: A Cardano Primer

There’s no disputing the fact that cryptocurrency is insanely popular among the emerging technologies crowd. It’s traditional academia that has shown blockchain...

Cryptocracy: A Ripple Primer

When talking with the average person, there are two cryptocurrencies they are usually familiar with. The first is, of course, Bitcoin. The second is Ripple, if ...

Cryptocracy: A Bitcoin Cash Primer

In the middle of 2017, a somewhat confusing situation occurred. Conflicting factions within the Bitcoin community had differing ideas about how the currency sho...

Be Aggressive, B.Va Aggressive!

I needed a new background for my computer, so I made a B.Va vector to remind me the proper way to keep playing D.Va....

Cryptocracy: A Litecoin Primer

Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency, the first blockchain and the one with the highest value. While that certainly conveys a sense of supremacy, it also sugg...

Tracer's Pulse Pistol out of Wood

Kind of a strange project of mine, but I used some of my spare time this summer to carve a model of Tracer's pulse pistol out of crafting wood. I think it turne...

Cryptocracy: A NEO Primer

You learned about Ethereum in our last article, now I’d like to tell you about NEO. The NEO blockchain was launched in 2014 under the somewhat confusing name of...

Sunset at the Los Angeles Anchorage

The sun setting over a loaded container ship. This picture taken on February 3rd, 2018 just outside of Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor. All rights reserved by @st...

Cryptocracy: An Ethereum Primer

As a beginner in cryptocurrency, you're going to come in knowing about Bitcoin. Maybe you heard about it in the news, or read an article on a random website. Yo...

Murder on Titan Station - Part 3 FINAL

I wasn’t going to receive a crime scene model of this murder, but I had viewed enough to assure me that the murders were linked. They had the same angelic motif...