How EncrypGen pioneered the bridge among all three In March of 2021, EncrypGen was undertaking its first Security Token Offering on the CoinMetro/Ignium platform, raising funds to broaden its public outreach for its free market for de-identified genomic data: The Gene-Chain. Meanwhile, the NFT craze was begining to reach its…

The big revelation about the past ten years of internet growth has been the degree to which we have all been unconsciously monetized. Our every piece of public, and sometimes not-so-public, data has been earning platforms like Google and Facebook billions of dollars, often without us realizing it. We just…

There is a lot of talk these days about data, who owns it, what it’s used for, and how to regulate its uses. But there is too little basic discussion about what data is — fundamentally. We know that it’s all around us, that everyone wants it, it’s extremely valuable…

Snow Crash? Or A Path to the Diamond Age? I started writing this months ago, long before a global pandemic emerged to perhaps permanently alter our mode of living. It was originally titled “Can Blockchains Save the Internet” but now that seems a bit under-ambitious. In truth, we all need…

Nature writes code. It is a messy, long-term process, but the evolutionary algorithms that created the human genome, and millions of similar genomes in millions of very different species, is the work of billions of years, and utterly unintentional. Yet, the 3 billion base pairs of DNA that comprise you…

The use of genetic tests for anything other than basic research at this point, and for identifying a handful of known, monogenic diseases…

I grew up during wartime, and was a casualty as many in my generation were. Specifically, the Beta/VHS wars raged as video recording, home taping, and movie rental businesses grew. VHS survived, for a while, until DVDs came along. But the war hurt consumers, and didn’t result in the best…

I’ve long been a believer in decentralization as a necessary feature of the techno-anarchist future that will save us from its opposite: fascism. In order to prevent the great harms that can come when power falls into the wrong hands, decentralizing systems of authority to the greatest extent possible, now…

Realizing the initial promise of the computer revolution. — by David Koepsell, J.D./Ph.D. The promise of computers and networks has changed dramatically over time. In the 70s, as the PC began to penetrate markets and imaginations, they were envisioned as tools that could unleash our creativity and turn everyone into a creator. Now, they are primarily used as devices…