Fixing Broken Money to Fix a Broken World The War on the World As you read this, governments around the world have declared war on their own people and economies in the name of fighting a germ. They've dropped the policy equivalent of a reverse neutron bomb: something which destroys the economy while supposedly leaving…

We’ve started a YouTube channel for Ascension! — Some people prefer to read about ideas and issues which interest them. Others prefer to hear about them. We prefer to write, rather than make speeches. …

Is the US Federal Government Truly Relevant to the Future of the Crypto Industry? Feds Running Scared Our previous article detailed our evaluation of Facebook’s Libra currency proposal. We see it as both providing some validation for our own project, as well as an opportunity to make our own Lyra much better than…

Lyra is Libra Done Right What’s In a Name More appears to be in common here than just a name starting with L and ending with -ra. It’s almost enough to make us think the folks at Facebook read our Dec. 2017 white paper. (Perhaps they did, but we don’t flatter ourselves.) Still, there…

The Problem We Can All See — Today one singular assertion is accepted across the political spectrum, from progressives to alt-righters: the current economic system works only for the top 1%, and essentially fails everybody else. This is very easy to see. In fact, it’s almost impossible not to see it, which explains the broad agreement. All…

What We Have — This is the inaugural posting for the blog of the Ascension Foundation, e.V. We are a long-established project in the cryptocurrency space, but not just another blockchain company or altcoin. We began our earliest design work in 2008 (before Satoshi’s Bitcoin paper!), and today our technology stack includes: A private…