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About Carlos C. Tapang

I run a company called Rock Stable Token Inc. I am the leader of the team behind the stabletoken called ROKS. ROKS is a cryptocurrency (digital money) and its value is tied to the U.S. dollar (USD). We are initially targeting it to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) with two great benefits: it costs almost nothing to send it, and it is fast. I am also involved in a movement (http://correctphilippines.org) to correct the Philippine constitution. It's an ambitious undertaking in itself, and there's no guarantee that improving our constitution will improve things. However, one thing is certain: if we don't establish a rational constitution, we will continue on our path of self-destruction. What kind of government is best? For me the best government is that which governs the least. We need the government not because it can provide for us but because it keeps us from running into each other. The proper function of government is that of a traffic light: it prevents us from bumping each other, but it does not tell us where to go.

We Arrive in Cebu

An Uneventful Flight   Right after loading all our furniture and other belongings into a 20-foot container and shipping it, we took a Cathay Pacific flight from Vancouver, Canada to Hong-Kong and then another flight from Hong-Kong to Cebu. The … Continue reading

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What is Exploitation?

There is one word that has befuddled all talk of political versus economic power. It is a word that is used by "social reformers" to mean a kind of "injustice" perpetrated by the moneyed class on the poor. The word … Continue reading

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Compassion versus Freedom, Emotion versus Reason

Like Yin and Yang, the perpetual conflict between reason and emotion goes on in each of us. The conflict is complex because our minds are complex. It is also very hard in some cases to distinguish between the two. What … Continue reading

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On My Own and Having Fun

Now that the iPhone apps I built are out there in Apple’s App Store, I get a kick out of what is now a daily ritual: counting the number of units I sold the previous day. I have been trying hard … Continue reading

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Benevolence and Corruption

How can we fix the problem of corruption? I believe there is a solution, but it requires an overhaul of our perceptions about government benevolence. Before I go into how corruption and benevolence are linked together, let me go through … Continue reading

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A Foretaste of How It would be Like to Do Business in the Philippines

Our ongoing experience with the big move, specifically with regards to the used Toyota minivan that we want to take with us, is giving us a foretaste of how it is like to do business in our homeland. I know that … Continue reading

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Apple has just released my iPhone apps

I am excited! Let’s see whether these apps will get us some positive cash flow going. It took the Apple testers more than a month to test the apps. Development effort was about about two man-weeks and took about a … Continue reading

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Preparations for Big Move to the Philippines

In my mind there are two big components to the big move. One is financial and the other is the logistics of the move. Several important decisions have to be made. Part of my business strategy involves setting up a … Continue reading

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I’m Going Home to the Philippines

I did not decide to go home just out of the blue. The fact is that I have been wanting to go home since the day my son Cris died, more than 8 years ago. I have been telling my … Continue reading

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We have just recently come down from the trees

The great Carl Sagan noted that if we compress the history of time (from the Big Bang to the present) to a year, then Earth came along at about the 255th day of that year, and we came down from … Continue reading

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