Universidade Independente de Angola

Amazon Forgotten Fishes. How the remarkable diversity of freshwater fishes is critical to people, rivers and forest

Across the vast sweep of the Amazon Basin, thousands of rivers, streams and floodplain lakes flow in an immense, interconnected waterscape— home to an unparalleled diversity of freshwater fishes. More than 2,700 species have so far been recorded, with dozens more added each year...

The Paradox of Trust: Why Cryptocurrency Supply Cannot Have a Global Upper Bound. On the Scarcity/Verifiability/Non-Coerciveness (SVN) Trilemma and Reflections on the Cult of "IN MATH WE TRUST"

This article argues that the total supply of cryptocurrencies cannot possess a meaningful global upper bound, not because of flaws in cryptographic algorithms themselves, but because of a structural contradiction between non-coerciveness, verifiability, and scarcity. Starting fro...