Tag: blockchain

Reconciling Privacy and Internet Freedom with Blockchain

Expert View: Reconciling Privacy and Internet Freedom with Blockchain by Alice Bonasio (Medium)

The past few months have seen a handful of data scandals emerge that have finally demonstrated to Brits the intrinsic value that their data holds, and the risks that come with giving it away so…

Post from Alice Bonacio discussing a possible future connection between privacy, security, and blockchain uses. Bonacio posits “with privacy becoming an increasing concern, but users reluctant to sacrifice the ease of use that Internet freedom allows them, blockchain offers a solution to reconcile data protection with simplicity without the need for regulation.” I know that…

Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future

Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future by Kai Stinchcombe (Medium)

Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built…

Kai Stinchcombe notes: Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better than the type of no-need-for-trusted-parties systems blockchain envisions. That’s permanent: no matter how much blockchain improves it is still headed…

Albert Wenger on the Decentralized Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3EBcmQZCZw&feature=youtu.be&t=6m40s

Sent to me by Hannah Gerber on Facebook: An interesting perspective by Albert Wenger on how we can bring regulation out of the industrial age and into the digital age. We need digitally native approaches if we want to create a more decentralized future and create genuine competition amongst the tech giants. The idea of mandatory…