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No Backdoor on Human Rights: Why Encryption Cannot Be Compromised
23.2.2020
In April 2019, the UK issued an Online Harms White Paper to announce its campaign to rein in “harmful speech” on social media sites such as Facebook and TikTok. The public consultation period has ended and a full consultation response is expected in Spring 2020. (Initial Consultation...
iOS 13 Design Guidelines, Templates, and Downloads
21.2.2020
Erik Kennedy wrote up a bunch of design advice for designing for the iPhone. Like Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, only illustrated and readable, says Erik.
This is mostly for native iOS apps kinda stuff, but it makes me wonder how much of this is expected when doing a mobile Progressive...
How Bitcoin Is Used to Promote Human Rights: Stories From Activists and Refugees
17.2.2020
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein and Syrian entrepreneur Moe Ghashim to discuss how cultural context shapes the way people view bitcoin, including stories from the Middle East
Cryptocurrency Is Agorism in Action
17.2.2020
The book “New Libertarian Manifesto” (NLM) by libertarian-anarchist Samuel E. Konkin III (SEK3) launched a movement that has grown amazingly over the last few decades: Agorism. This is the movement of peaceful revolution through counter-economics. Counter-economics is “the study...
Elizabeth Stark: From Human Rights to Humanity’s Decentralized Future
16.2.2020
Elizabeth Stark, number 8 on Cointelegraph’s first-ever Top 100: from East Coast to West Coast and why an Ivy League alumnus and lecturer chose a decentralized future
AI, AN and Blockchain Technology Together Can Revolutionize the Human Race
15.2.2020
AI (Artificial Intelligence) and AN (Artificial Intuition) are the buzz words of the computer science world. Interestingly, these two technologies are aficionados of human intelligence and are constructed to assist the human race in its overall growth and progress. To understand how they help...
Blockchain Plays an Unlikely Role in the Global Battle for Human Rights
4.2.2020
Shutting down slavery: See how blockchain technology is joining the fight
Crypto Analytics Firm Elliptic to Tell US Congress Privacy Coins Need Stricter AML Rules
15.1.2020
Elliptic head of policy Liat Shetret will recommend that the U.S. push for greater enforcement of anti-money laundering regulation of crypto exchanges, including for traders using privacy coins, in a Congressional hearing on human trafficking
The name origin of Satoshi Nakamoto
23.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 23 December, 2019 “Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.” - Doris Lessing In today's newsletter, we will be covering: […]
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CipherTrace to Tackle ‘Modern-Day Slavery’ With Crypto Analytics
20.12.2019
The blockchain security firm has partnered with the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII) to fight human trafficking
Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Agency Traces Cryptocurrency to Fight Modern-Day Slavery
20.12.2019
CipherTrace announces partnership with ATII to combat human trafficking using crypto analytics
Iran, Hong Kong, India: Failed Protests Point to Need for Crypto-Anarchy ‘Second Realms’
13.12.2019
What is the second realm? It’s both an abstract and concrete “place” parallel to here, where temporary autonomous zones (TAZ) provide a chance to escape the burning surveillance spotlight of the state and brutal law enforcement culture, and allow for at least temporary exercises...
The Year in Crypto Journalism: Truth Will Always Be Human
11.12.2019
The crypto-sphere shows disdain for journalism, believing that technology is better at revealing truth. It isn't
Crypto market temporary rebound
26.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 26 November, 2019 “It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.” - Lupita Nyong'o In today's newsletter, we […]
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Crypto market temporary rebound
26.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 26 November, 2019 “It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.” - Lupita Nyong'o In today's newsletter, we […]
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How Bitcoin Applies to The Sovereign Individual Thesis
24.11.2019
Just before the internet became a massive display of human ingenuity and networking, a few individuals anticipated the emergence of tools that would help progress the end of politics and the nation states. 22 years ago, much like Nostradamus, Isaac Newton, Gerald Celente, and Carl Jung’s...
Ethereum Name Service - What’s Human Readable Domain Name Good For?
24.11.2019
Nick Johnson and Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation began experimenting with a solution to replacing the hex addresses employed in the Ethereum blockchain with human-readable addresses. Following burgeoning interest from the market for the solution, the Ethereum Name Service (ENS)...
Human Rights Foundation: Stablecoin Privacy Is ‘Extremely Lackluster’
22.11.2019
The Human Rights Foundation has published its analysis of major stablecoins’ privacy tooling and censorship resilience, stating that stablecoin privacy is “extremely lackluster”
How Crypto Assets Are Capturing the Attention Economy
14.11.2019
Human attention is a finite resource: we awake each day with it replenished, only for it to seep away through work, leisure, and time frittered idly browsing the web while circumventing ads. Recognizing the scarcity of maintaining human interest, attention economists have devised incentivized...
Bitfinex Claims to Be Victim of Fraud After Crypto Capital President Arrested
28.10.2019
The operators of Bitfinex claim that the cryptocurrency exchange is a victim of fraud committed by its payment processor Crypto Capital. The men behind Crypto Capital now face charges related to money laundering in Poland and the U.S. Also Read: Tether Created ‘Largest Bubble in Human...