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Mike Lorrey

@mikelorrey

Mild Mannered VR Tycoon and Crypto OG

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Mike Lorrey
@mikelorrey Jul 7, 2018, 3:43 PM UTC

Satoshi Shows Some Skirt

And no, this is not a reference to the excrable and exploitative "Satoshi is Female" slogan that the SJWs attempting to inroad the blockchain movement wear on t-shirts. Those t-shirts have led quite…

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Mike Lorrey
@mikelorrey May 10, 2018, 4:57 AM UTC

An Open Metaverse Means Tearing Down Walled Gardens

Going back to the mists of technological prehistory there have been debates over the nature of identity, individuality, and the individuals place in society as well as the origin of their personhood.…

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Mike Lorrey
@mikelorrey Apr 30, 2018, 2:28 PM UTC

HuffPuff Hit Piece on Bitcoin Is Laughably Inept

Gotta say, I usually don't expect a very high bar of fact checking, or intelligence, in HuffPuff articles, but this POS by Zach Carter is a new low. a) Bitcoin has not only created millionaires, but…

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Mike Lorrey
@mikelorrey May 31, 2017, 12:09 AM UTC

Does An Open Metaverse Require Open Source?

A bit about my background: I was once one of the top developers in Second Life, til Linden Lab stole everything, resulting in protracted litigation. Following settlement, I thought the opensim platfo…

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Mike Lorrey
@mikelorrey Sep 4, 2016, 7:21 PM UTC

Okay, how do I get paid?

I've been a Steemer for a week now, have written a few stories, earned a little Steem, and I would really like to get PAID, which is the entire point of using Steemit rather than just blogging on wor…

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Mike Lorrey
@mikelorrey Aug 31, 2016, 7:42 PM UTC

A Rational Plan for Fixing America

I think everyone will agree that America is pretty broken right now. I'm not just talking about the toxic political atmosphere either, but that's preventing solutions from being created. Excessive po…

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Mike Lorrey
@mikelorrey Aug 30, 2016, 6:56 PM UTC

Belated Introduction

Who is Mike Lorrey? I am a technical and scifi author. I am an entrepreneur with interests in virtual reality, space, energy, gadgets, and blockchains. I was the cocreator of bitgold, the prototype f…

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Mike Lorrey
@mikelorrey Aug 29, 2016, 9:11 PM UTC

It's Time to Get Serious About Space

The past few weeks have been sort of a perfect storm for those of us interested in the possibilities for interstellar space travel, for habitable earth-like worlds beyond our solar system, and the po…

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