This article originally appeared in Bitcoin Magazine’s “Moon Issue.” To get a copy, visit our store. Energy money is the catalyst and tip of the spear for an intelligent sentient species’ transition ...

"Where is everybody?" That famous phrase, uttered over lunch by eminent physicist Enrico Fermi, perfectly encapsulated what has since become known as the Fermi paradox: If life happened here on Earth ...

In our quest to understand our place in the cosmos, two important concepts often emerge: the Fermi Paradox and the Drake Equation. The Fermi Paradox underscores a contradiction between the high ...

I can understand the idea that life can be plentiful across the galaxy due to how quickly life evolved on Earth and how many species we have had and how many mass extinctions life has survived. My ...

Bitcoin doesn't just "break all your models." Bitcoin breaks all cycles. This article originally appeared in Bitcoin Magazine's "Moon Issue." To get a copy, visit our store. Energy money is the ...

My feeling is that any species sufficiently advanced to attain interstellar travel would rub us out like a pesky rodent infestation, if they even recognized us as equals at all. Click to expand ...