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How do you explain blockchains and decentralization to someone so that their eyes don't glaze over? How can you get someone to actually understand blockchain technology, and why it…

As you all know, from the Steemit article I wrote in Rolling Stone, I've started covering crypto and blockchain for the magazine whenever I can. Today, we broke new ground there, a…

 Dear Steemits, You don't know me. I’m just a regular guy who’s figur…

“You know, if I can gut it out for five more years, five billion people would have a different life.” Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock, says as he stands in the stern of his b…

One of the most frustrating things about the mainstream is people pinning the success of this revolution on the price of bitcoin. They don't understand just how far-reaching the i…

*One day, Bozo the Clown asked me to write about the time someone tried to assassinate him when he ran for President.* *It was cognitive overload. There was too much going on in t…

*“Kurt Cobain just committed suicide.”* *The voice on the other end of the phone was my* Rolling Stone *editor.* *“What!?” I exclaimed, shocked out of my sleep.* *“Turn the radi…

This man right here told me he could kill me with his mind... http://i63.tinypic.com/eq6xqq.jpg *For twenty-four years, the U.S. government had a spy program that involved psych…

*Going to begin a new chapter in my Steemit adventures. And also give some of you something to help you forget about this week's crypto drop and keep your eye on the big picture...…

http://i65.tinypic.com/25fu3yt.png *“Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.”* ― **David Foster Wallace.** While the first chapter gave us a small yet mysterious introd…

http://i63.tinypic.com/alovpu.jpg We are happy to announce the successful launch of the second Steemit Book Club last Monday. It was a great meeting with a lot of new participant…

http://i63.tinypic.com/2h3bzna.png Welcome to the Steemit Book Club: The only online book club where you get paid to read great works! You may be shocked to hear that less than e…

http://i63.tinypic.com/10rpz6g.png In this fascinating journey called *Ulysses*, we’ve witnessed James Joyce experiment with all sorts of writings styles, and this chapter was cert…

http://i66.tinypic.com/14l6io9.png In Homer’s *Odyssey,* Odysseus finally arrives home after a long and precarious journey. Once in Ithaca, he reunites with his son Telemachus at …

http://i66.tinypic.com/28mfwp3.jpg *“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the r…

http://i65.tinypic.com/kaj5f.png **“I was born anew, owner of my own darkness.” ― Pablo Neruda** In Homer’s *Odyssey,* Odysseus washed ashore on the land of the Phaeacians after …

http://i64.tinypic.com/b7ang4.jpg *"A nation? says Bloom. A nation is the same people living in the same place."* **— James Joyce,** *Ulysses.* Chapter twelve opens at 5pm with …

http://i64.tinypic.com/5wy2jo.jpg **NOTE FROM NEIL: A special shout-out to @the-alien for writing and researching this post in the middle of a local emergency, where he has no ele…

‹http://i64.tinypic.com/14e6rrd.jpg *"It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We…

http://i64.tinypic.com/28rziba.png *“There's a man going around taking names And he decides who to free and who to blame Everybody won't be treated all the same There'll be a gold…