Concepts

State Depository TokenI thought I was done with the Gold Token paper, ver 6. But occasionally I spend a day on research and yesterday I discovered that at least three blue States are pursuing stablecoin platforms (PA, NY, NJ) similar to Wyoming. goldpaper_ver6Gold Token white paper, Ver 6goldpaper_ver6.

Post-election, angry women threaten to withhold sex and marriage from men. Sorry, baby, but men already beat you to the punch, you just weren’t paying attention. As mentioned in my DEFCON proposal in 2017, the MGTOW movement was probably a significant factor in Trump’s 2016 election... MGTOW - Men Going

The more you know about the Second Industrial Revolution, the more you know about today’s Information Revolution. A visual history of the United States work week from 1860 to 1945. This graph is an aggregate of information I collected over the past thirty years. After the Civil War, the average

Average mortgage debt for red States versus blue States. The blue States carry about fifty percent more mortgage debt, a monthly payment of $3055 versus $2052. That’s a significant factor in inflationary expectations. Debtors tend to favor inflation to dilute away their debt (soft money). Higher debt means higher tendency

ParasocialPower Distribution law was part of LongTail theory in the early days of the Internet and my own Cultural Diffusion. “Parasocial relationships” are a modern transmutation of Power Law. The perils of P. Diddy are a present-day paradigm of the pitfalls of Parasocialism. What Is a Parasocial Relationship?Parasocial relationshipsbrowardbroward

I’ve mentioned Dalio and the Kondratieff wave before. His recent article explains his investment model and likelyhood of a second civil war. Two years ago his probability estimate was 1 in 3, which I thought too low, but today he’s in sync with me: “Now I think the risk of

The most interesting part of a system is how it filters input. A filter must strike a balance between blocking malicious data but passing relevant data about external threats and hacking is about understanding these filters. A lax filter allows malicious agents/code to gain control but a strict filter

Over twenty years ago I created this concept which may finally be coming into its own, like the Vertical Web, the Cultural Diffusion and the Gold-backed Digital Currency. The S-Curve: A graph showing the rate of growth of an entity like a business, animal population, etc. It has three important

The terminology is from my DEFCON presentations. I was specific in using “UMI” because it lacks the legal violations of traditional “hacking”. And as many now know, the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections were dosed with UMI. The basis of UMI was my version of Schramm, the Reflective Schramm mode…

A series of software designs for a BRICS currency platform but also applicable to a set of State-based precious metal depositories running in parallel to the Federal Reserve. Many people expect BRICS to release a gold-backed digital currency for member use but based on their actions, I think the rea…

Broward Horne, browardhorne@gmail.com https://broward.ghost.io/ goldpaper_ver6Gold-backed Digital Token White Paper, Ver 6goldpaper_ver6.pdf777 KBdownload-circle I’m a software developer with 30+ years of experience. There may soon be demand from State governments for R&D, prototyping and development of gold-backed digital currencies as described in

A 9-page primer for commercial application design, based on thirty-three years of experience. This is tactical strategy I learned from experience, much came from IBM’s Websphere Commerce Server (now HCL Commerce) and re-interpreted for AWS. It’s a highly configurable and scalable e-commerce server for commercial use. Define a Cloud Formation

Dakota Alert added a new sensor to their 4000 alarm series last year and I finally ordered one to test. I love this system. It’s simple, cheap, reliable, with no external dependencies. The solar-powered breakbeams were an expensive disappointment but otherwise, this system is outstanding. I’ve…

Post-COVID Home Security, Part 1 - 2020Post-COVID Home Security, Part 2 - 2021Post-COVID Home Security, Part 1 -2020Home Security, Part 2 I sold my house in 2004 and didn’t care about homesecurity until my new purchase in 2018. And even then I felt no urgency untilthe pandemic appeared, followed

A simpler calculation for the Bitcoin Epitaph. SPENDING: * Bitcoin consumes 150 terawatt hours of power per year * Average cost per kilowatt is $0.08 in China and rising. * Annual energy cost is $12 billion. INCOME: * 330,000 coins mined per year. * $21,000 per coin * Annual income is $6.9

In 1991, I read a Barron’s article by Ray Dalio (founder of Bridgewater Associates, net worth of $22 billion) about the credit cycle (Kondratiev wave, debt cycle, etc) and it’s been in my mind ever since. Today I read an engaging article by Brandon Smith similar to my own analysis

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our tale of treachery begins within The Great Empire built upon the ruins of the Great War. At first, the Great Empire fostered commerce and innovation across the planet. But over time, corruption and theft rose, ene…

Disguise REST API signatures in the TCP/IP layer with a polymorphic API. Most crypto currencies assume TCP/IP is trustworthy. Their security is concentrated in encryption and blockchains but as we saw this year, governments can still kill your crypto ( Canada [https://github.com/broward/Polymorph…

In January 2020, I was staring at this virus chart, pondering COVID when I realized it’s a resource contention function, X * Y = K. So I wrote a mathematical model of how a Gain Of Function virus could work... And graphed how Gain Of Function might act... GoF virus would appear

(addendum: After reading 200 threads, articles, commentaries on COVID vaccine in 2021, it was clear that deaths were taboo and rarely discussed so I organized death-related info into this summary) The COVID mRNA vaccines have four ways to kill you. 1) Allergic reaction - This usually occurs in the…

It would take about 30 minutes to write a simple deadman trigger with Google’s Trends tool running a search for “mcafee death”. Trends has a CSV export option. Write a REST call that runs every so often, pull the CSV into something like Apache POI and wait for a state

Post-COVID Home Security, Part 1 - 2020Home Security, Part 2 I sold my house in 2004 and didn’t care about home security until my new purchase in 2018. And even then I felt no urgency until the pandemic appeared, followed by riots and looting. I researched smart locks for

Post-COVID Home Security, Part 2 - 2021Post-COVID Home Security, Part 1 - 2020Home Security, Part 2 I sold my house in 2004 and didn’t care about home security until my new purchase in 2018. And even then I felt no urgency until the pandemic appeared, followed by riots and

Chimeric virus - “Combining two pathogenic viruses increases the lethality of the new virus”. This chart shows diseases according to their mortality (deadliness) and mobility (contagiousness). This is a classic X * Y = K graph depicting an environmental constraint. High mortality reduces mobi…

Warning! Too dangerous for DEFCON! This submission for the DEFCON 2017 hacker conference was rejected and I wasn’t surprised, it’s controversial. Abstract: How Donald Trump Hacked The Planet describes how Trump used unique circumstances (the Kondratieff wave, diminishing returns on diversity,etc)…

In the beginning, there was Tim. And Tim said, "Let there be HTML!" And it was good. Then some dumbass asked, "Hey, can you add a button I can click on?" And Netscape said, "Let there be Javascript!" And it was... acceptable. Then someone

This is a semantic model for quantifying relationships. It was a sudden epiphany during an nine-hour drive from Boulder to Kansas City over Thanksgiving weekend I’d hoped to turn it into working software but my employer was more interested in converting me to Jesus and didn’t perceive any value i…

The S-curve describes a growth pattern of new products, organisms in nature, etc. When a new ecological niche appears, the growth rate of filling it increases exponentially until the inflection point, the point at when (roughly) the niche is half filled, at which time the growth rate begins to fall.

Conspiracies are a function of information, or more precisely, a lack of information. Let’s define a quantitative test for a conspiracy. 💡two or more conspirators who share some information💡at least one victim who is excluding from that information💡conspirators profit in some way from the vict…

My 2007 DEFCON presentation makes reference to “active” vs “passive” devices in data mining and manipulating mental states. That’s what Cambridge Analytica did in the 2016 Presidential election. My theory starts at the 32 minute mark of this video: Just re-watched this. Wow, I really hit this one…

In 2005, I was monitoring the housing industry for recession indicators and in December the home inventory trendline reversed due to a sales slowdown, a strong indicator. In 2007, Naomi Klein released “The Shock Doctrine” in 2007 and I realized her concept of economic shock was similar to my…

This should be about the 32-hour workweek but the 36-hour is more politically viable. Memes can be amazingly intractable. Concepts are often impossible to alter once they’re lodged in someone’s mind. The 40-workweek is one of them. The modern workweek was created during the Great Depression for the…

That’s the logo from my first website, RealMeme.com, which I launched in March of 2004. Yes, it’s a CORONAVIRUS. My site slogan was: 💡meme: A contagious idea that replicates like a virus, moving from mind to mind.The Wayback Machine webcrawled RealMeme in April, 2005 after RealMeme was featured

I published “The Cultural Diffusion” on my website in 2006. The Longtail theory was a prominent idea then, that the transition from monolithic, one-way communication systems to granular, interactive systems would create small but profitable niche markets. From a cultural point of view, a long tail might express itself as

This image was originally for my DEFCON 13 opening but I used a funny experience from my flight instead. I discovered hacking while working as an electronic technician at Teradyne in Agoura Hills, CA. They had dozens of Microvax II systems around the planet I could hack. I realized I