zsarg Tag Posts Index

Divi Beta Notes: Day One

So . . . . the race for riches is ON!  Or, at least, for some modest divi prizes.  Our first contestant alphabetically was also the first to set up their

Divi Beta Notes: The Beta Begins!

We had a great response to our call for beta participants.  This was a difficult decision to make but 30 beta testers were selected and emails have been sent!

Divi Beta Notes: Setting Up a New Masternode

A lot of Divi’s new features are enhancements to the masternodes.  Instead of this making setup even more complicated, we’ve totally overhauled the process

Divi Beta Notes: Forks & Sporks & Splits, Oh My!

As blockchains and cryptocurrencies  thrive and die by market share and network effects, a blockchain split  is the worst thing that can happen (short

Divi Beta Notes: Scalability II

My last post explained how the number  of miners in proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies and the size of the  consensus pool in proof-of-stake (PoS)

Divi Beta Notes: Scalability I

One of the most critical features of a cryptocurrency is how well it  scales -- how many transactions it can handle, at what speed, and still  maintain

Divi Beta Notes: 5-tier Masternodes

Divi has entered the home stretch with our limited beta next week.  Since I finally have some breathing room, I thought that I'd share some of what we've been

On Democracy: Value and Limits

 The following post is related to Social Futurism (SF) and the Zero State (ZS),  but only reflects the views of the author (Ámon Ásentír, AKA Dr. M.  Amon

Bridging the Trans Gap - Speculations on ways to bring Transgender and Transhuman together.

There is clearly a gap between the Transhuman and Transgender groups despite their having some significant common ground. Although having no clear central authority

Alternate Reality Games as Cybernetic Organisms

 This article is part of a series on Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG),  particularly as it relates to cutting-edge computing technologies.   Previous

Upload Lives Matter… Or Else.

 A long-time science fiction riff which may be on the verge of becoming reality is the idea of the Copy,  which is to say the digital emulation of a human

The Architect Is Coming For You (The End of Metric Media)

This will be the last post from this account . . . .  Here is what happened as reported by Transhumanity.net with in-line additions by the survivors . . . . 

Now *THIS* Is Far More Like It . . . .

Those of you not succeeding at the Transhuman Gamification and Writing Contest. should check out USTP Chairman Gennady Stolyarov's post Concrete Transhumanism -

Telepresence and building strong networks

The use of telepresence technology has been increasing ever since the first two people were able to communicate in real time over a telephone. Since then we have

Foolish Mortals! You leave hundreds of dollars in prize money on the table?!??!!!

I am *very* . . . . displeased . . . . with the lack of response to the  Transhuman Gamification and Writing Contest. $1000 in prizes for writing ( and $5000

Simulated News and Techno-Tribalism

We have reached a point in the early 21st Century at which media cannot be assumed to directly represent reality.  This is both true in the general and older

A Quick but Important One-Question Survey

The Foundation has requested that the following survey be posted.  Zero State is taking no opinion on the matter until its members have spoken.  Vote by

The Goddess of the Moon and the Nodes

During the ancient glories of Rome, the great goddess Hecate ( Hekate ) was venerated with a deep and true level of devotion. This goddess takes many forms and is

LARPs as a way to explore future societies

LARP stands for Live Action Role Play. It is a game format which takes role playing from the tabletop and allows more full immersion and participation by the players.

Hecate Trivia

 -805.4 / Saturday 6 January 12018 We don't believe in gods... do we? As has been explained elsewhere, ZS is both rational and empirical on the one hand, and