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Blockstream’s Samson Mow: “Facebook Should Have Just Used Bitcoin” Regarding Libra Project

The combative hearing in the U.S Congress in the past two days left citizens and other onlookers with much doubt on the success of Facebook’s Libra. While Bitcoin (BTC) caught on a bullish vibe across the financial committee led by Maxine Waters, Libra’s CEO David Marcus was under fire on the privacy of data issues […] дальше »

2019-7-18 19:28


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We gave US police, ICE, and CBP AI without regulations in 2016: Now it’s 1984

This weekend’s ICE raids are essentially a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the government‘s surveillance state. The same AI-powered tools empowering those agents to identify, target, track, and spy on immigrants without a warrant are already in the hands of police officers, sherriff’s deputies, and border patrol agents across the country. дальше »

2019-7-13 23:37


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‘Shut Down the Cryptocurrencies,’ Says Nobel Prize Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz

Despite the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies, there are some people – experts in their fields – who believe that cryptocurrencies are not good enough and should be banned. The latest person to join this school of thought is Joseph Eugen Stiglitz, a recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics and a Professor at Columbia […] ‘Shut Down the Cryptocurrencies,’ Says Nobel Prize Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz was originally found on Cryptocurrency News | Tech, Privacy, Bitcoin & Blockchain | Blokt. дальше »

2019-5-7 14:29


F**k Privacy. Facebook’s Terrifying New Lawyer is an Architect of NSA Mass Surveillance

By CCN. com: Don’t believe what Mark Zuckerberg tells you. Facebook is not remotely interested in protecting your privacy. The company just hired Jennifer Newstead as general counsel, a lawyer widely cited as co-writer of the Patriot Act, famously granting unprecedented snooping powers to the US government. дальше »

2019-4-23 17:40


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Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem

Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems. дальше »

2019-3-23 17:29


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Op Ed: Defining Decentralization: How Ambiguity Continues to Divide Crypto

There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology. дальше »

2019-3-1 19:43