Academic(ish)
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Fixed vs Floating BTC Exchange Rates: Glossary, Process Map, and Practical Checklist
A BTC exchange quote contains several moving parts: the market rate, the quoted payout, network costs, processing conditions, and the point at which the…
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How Much ETH to Keep for Gas Before a Crypto Exchange
Bottom line: do not calculate the ETH reserve from the exchange amount alone. First identify every on-chain transaction that must be completed, obtain a fresh…
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Between Districts and Dialects: Can we imagine a map of identity not drawn in lines, but woven in words?
By: M. Azzam Rakan Noor Growing up in a city where regional language felt alienated from daily life, I often felt disconnected from the places my parents came from. My mother, a Sundanese woman, speaks fluently with her friends and family, but she never really passed the language down to me. Driven by a growing…
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On Money Laundering: A route for Smurfs in Banking
By: Carlos I. The globalisation has brought many positive effects for society, for example the easing of transit and communication and the relative decrease of transaction costs for international cooperation, to name just a few. The internationalisation of the financial system is a huge piece of this globalist scenario, however with its development, some principal…
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Meaning in Conceptual History: A Dialogue between Gadamer and Koselleck
By: M. Azzam Rakan Noor In approaching a particular event or term, it is said that historians have to be accurate and non-influential–nonpartisan. However, it is still debatable how historians should be purely objective or should involve various essences of subjectivity, i.e prejudice, in order to analyse thoroughly. One example is how Gadamer’s hermeneutics and…
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Exuviation of Competences, Demos and Res Publica: The Case of Dynasty Politics
By: Jonathan Kay The striking difference between democracy—although it acts as a minus malum—and various other political systems, is public participation. In procedural, electoral, and ideational settings, citizen participation is necessary. Therefore, the process is also relatively transparent and free from any sort of corruption, collusion, or nepotism frills. Democracy requires a large audience of…