Nature Bats Last with Guy McPherson
Mother Nature bats last — and She’s coming out swinging.
The Doors – The End
Music licensed to YouTube by: WMG (on behalf of Elektra 0591); União Brasileira de Compositores, [Wixen] Doors Music Co., Sony ATV Publishing, Warner Chappell, LatinAutor, UBEM, ASCAP, and 24 Music Rights Societies
Bitcoin Q&A: Key Storage Best Practices
What is a hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallet? How are paper wallets different from hardware wallets? Which of the Bitcoin wallets and/or clients (mobile, desktop, hardware) is best for storing coins? Are hardware wallets with Bluetooth secure? Regarding desktop wallets,
Fight To Protect Fiji Reef From Chinese Developer
It started with a dream to create a patch of heaven in Fiji, a surfer’s paradise right near one of the world’s most legendary waves, Cloudbreak. Navrin Fox and Woody Jack obtained a 99-year lease on land on Malolo
Owning 1 Bitcoin, Bitcoin Outperforms Everything
Bitcoin is real and there’s only so much to go around. Get ready for the next several years.
The Five Pillars of Open Blockchains
In this talk, Andreas covers the five pillars of open blockchains: Open Borderless Neutral Censorship-Resistant Public
Bitcoin Q&A: Privacy, Inflation Risks, And Censorship Resistance
How do zero knowledge proofs work? How do you create a zero knowledge proof transaction? Are they computationally difficult? Are privacy coins useful in authoritarian environments? Will MimbleWimble displace Zcash? What implications does the Zcash inflation vulnerability have for
Climate Change: How Land Use is Accelerating the Crisis
Global Warming and Climate Change have two well known culprits : Energy and Transport. But there are two more co-conspirators contributing catastrophically to the crisis. Those partners are Land Use and Intensive Livestock Farming. A new book by Mike
What Climate Change Means for Our Agriculture and Our Health
A panel of experts discusses climate change and its effects on our agriculture and our health, while also offering insights into how we as individuals can work to limit its negative impacts and create positive change.
Guy McPherson @ Mother Foucault’s Bookstore in Portland
3 May 2019 presentation at Mother Foucault’s Book Shop in Portland, Oregon.
Bitcoin Q&A: The Life Cycle Of a Transaction
What is the life cycle of a transaction, from wallet to inclusion in the Bitcoin blockchain? This question is from the second session of MOOC 11, which took place on February 7th 2019. If you want early-access to talks
Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests
The dynamics of deforestation are increasingly inseparable from the growing demand for food from consumers in the most developed countries. Humans are eating the world’s forests. Not directly, of course—but a spate of new studies shows we might as