Climate Change – Secret Weapon of Western Hegemony and Pillar of the Data Economy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two days after the summer solstice in June 0f 1988, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientist James...
Where’s Ferris Bueller? The Illuminati Bash That Never Was and the Origins of Internet Conspiracy Politics
CAIRO, EGYPT – "Dear Ed," began the short note addressed to a fellow Yale graduate from the suburbs of Chicago....
Galactic Cyber Citizens and the Theater of the Oppressed – Hacktivism and Bitcoin’s Political Destiny
FORT MEADE, MARYLAND – Suspicions of an intelligence agency's involvement did not deter people like Lazlo Hanyecz and other early...
Beelzebub’s ProtegE – Deconstructing the Myth of Whitfield Diffie
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY – Bailey Whitfield "Whit" Diffie first heard about the applications of computational work-based cryptographic methods from Alan Tritter at IBM's...
The Pre-History of Hacker Culture: Phreaks, Mobsters and the Greatest Programmer in the World
MAMARONECK, NEW YORK – Carlo Gambino approached 12-year old Walter Shaw, Jr. after his father had been grilled that day by...
Radical Conformity: How Silicon Valley and Bank of America Beta-Tested the Internet on the Counterculture
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – On January 3, 2009, the pseudonymous author of the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto, 'mined' the cryptocurrency's first...
Swindlers on the Rubicon: SWIFT, the CIA and NSA Encryption Technology
The CIA has had access to SWIFT’s international banking systems since the early 90s, and together with the NSA, a...
Bankers, Slaves & Lunatics: The Original Military Industrial Complex and the Roots of Philanthro-capitalism
The end of the slave trade didn't mean the end of slavery, only its transition from a colonial form into...
The Devil’s Currency – Part I
The Devil’s Currency is a three-part investigative report that begins with the story of the US Dollar at the moment...
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Prompt King: The Enthronement of Generative AI Through the Supply Chain
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Natural Asset Managers – How Decentralized Ledger Technology Will Drive the Ecosystem Services Sector
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Climate Change – Secret Weapon of Western Hegemony and Pillar of the Data Economy
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Wyoming’s Far-Right Knights of the Blockchain Roundtable
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DARPA’s Man in Wuhan
