December 2017 – Always the Journey

31Dec 2017 by admin

My Predictions for 2018

2017 has been an amazing year overall. I pushed further with my life insurance business and made Executive Council, continued my multi-year study of the future implications of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Artificial Intelligence, etc, traveled to a few different states for both business and pleasure, and built many amazing relationships. I have always been intrigued with what the future holds and how technology and the use of knowledge will shape it. This year specifically, I have dedicated hundreds of hours in deep study specifically around Blockchain technologies, Cryptocurrencies, their use and future affect in the world. I have read dozens of whitepapers, watched over 100 video presentations, interviews, white boards and tutorials, read thousands of Tweets and posts, read research papers, articles, and have spoken with many well versed…

22Dec 2017 by admin

Trust but Verify: Blockchain Does Both

Trust but Verify: Blockchain Does Both The core challenge of digital currency has been the problem of double dipping. If a user has a digital currency unit and is clever, it is possible to send the digital currency unit to more than one recipient, both of whom would believe it to be legitimate – unlimited at-will digital counterfeiting. That’s no good. The obvious answer is to have a trusted third party who moderates the system to keep everyone in check. This is a perfectly good answer as long as the moderator is more clever than the all nefarious participants now and in the future. Not likely. Sooner or later, somebody will get past the poor moderator. The core of the bitcoin system is to take the role of moderator…

18Dec 2017 by admin

Always The Journey Podcast Episode No. 3

Welcome to Always the Journey episode number 3. In this episode, Jason Woodland interviews actor Charlie Halford in his private studio in Los Angeles, California. Charlie is an accomplished actor and has worked on more than 60 film and television shows, most notably Reggie Ladue on Season One of True Detective, he acted as Chaz in NBC's Constantine and most recently can be seen as one of the key Saviors on The Walking Dead. [embed]http://traffic.libsyn.com/alwaysthejourney/Podcast_No_3_Charlie_H_newest.mp3[/embed]

08Dec 2017 by admin

Always the Journey podcast Episode No. 2

In this episode, Jason Woodland interviews Wil Bown. We speak about VR, AR, AI, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies. We also make some predictions for the future and talk about a $17,000 sandwich! Wil has been working as a contract software engineer for over 23 years. He almost single-handedly developed the Mozaex Media Server which did over $30 million in sales. A local Bitcoin activist, he has been mining cryptocurrencies since 2011, is the organizer of the 500+ member Utah Bitcoin Community meetup, won top prize at the Million Dollar Texas Bitcoin Conference hackathon in 2015, contributed code to main fork Bitcoin, and has been involved in several bitcoin startup projects. Wil considers himself an old school Cyberpunk and hopes to gradually merge his mind directly with machines and to help build…