Moxie Marlinspike: The Cypherpunk Pirate Who Built Signal

Did you know that your daily messages on chats like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are encrypted thanks to this man? Considered a late cypherpunk and anarchist, Matthew Rosenfeld (better known as Moxie Marlinspike) is a remarkable American cryptographer and creator of privacy-focused digital tools for everyone. Marlinspike was born in the early eighties, grew up … Read more

The Battle for Agent Commerce: Google’s AP2 vs OpenAI’s ACP

We’re watching something pretty wild unfold right now. AI agents aren’t just chatting anymore, they’re starting to spend money. Your AI assistant might soon book your flight, renew your subscriptions, or order your groceries. Which, honestly, sounds convenient until you stop and think: wait, who’s making sure this thing doesn’t go rogue with my credit … Read more

Why a Decentralized Internet Might Still Silence Us

The internet began as a distributed network designed to resist single points of failure and maintain communication even under attack. The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) embodied principles of decentralization and fault tolerance that seemed to promise genuine freedom of expression. Each node operated independently without reliance on central authorities. However, the commercialization of … Read more

The Metaphysics of the Event Horizon

Yes, I’m using an example of the sci-fi movie Event Horizon, a 1997 science fiction film directed by Paul Anderson and written by Philip Eisner. There are moments when science fiction doesn’t merely imagine the future – “It haunts it. “ In the 1997 cult-classic film Event Horizon, a spacecraft disappears during a test of … Read more

How I Trained A Small Language Model From Scratch

With the artificial intelligence ecosystem rapidly growing with different systems being built, it has reached its inflection point. While billions are being poured into ever larger models, these expenses do not reflect the ROI with 42% of these projects delivering zero ROI, and 88% of proof of concept not getting to production. The issue isn’t … Read more

MEXC Ventures Raises Ethena Investment to $66M

MEXC Ventures has doubled down on its investment in the Ethena ecosystem, bringing its total exposure to $66 million, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk. The latest move includes a $14 million investment in ENA, the governance token of the Ethena protocol, building on a $16 million ENA purchase and $20 million acquisition … Read more

Exploring Machine Learning Techniques for LTV/CLV Prediction

The world’s moving at a pace that’d make a cheetah look slow. We’re knee-deep in a tidal wave of tech advancements, radical business paradigm shifts, and full-blown cultural transformations. Trying to predict what comes next? That’s the ultimate quest, and it takes more than a hunch. In the trenches of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), there’s … Read more