Yoda: E-Democracy & Blockchain Content (Links)

Tip of the Hat to the Staff of Humanitad, founded by Sacha Stone BLOCKCHAIN BASED E-DEMOCRACY / E-GOVERNANCE DEVELOPMENTS ARAGON https://aragon.one DApp to create and govern DAO´s (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations) also working on some sort of digital jurisdiction. DISTRICT0X https://district0x.io District oriented network of decentralised markets (collaborating with ARAGON)

Norie Huddle: Russian Quantum-safe Block-Chain

Russian group delivers the first unhackable quantum-safe blockchain The group claims that its solution secures the blockchain by combining quantum key distribution with post-quantum cryptography so that it is essentially unhackable. It does so through the implementation of special blocks within the blockchain that are signed by quantum keys rather than the traditional digital signatures.

Laughing Monkey: The Circada Platform at GitHub

CICADA: The Internet We Always Wanted Breakthrough Decentalized Application and Distributed Direct Democracy Platform Blockchain breakthrough, human unique identifier, info wallets, new proof of work, delivers a practical universal basic income, anonymous voting with end-to-end verifiability, gamifies voting, citizen proposal and filtration system, expert panels legislation, XML-based law, action tokens and currency, stops denial of …

William Binney: Interview – the Good American

NSA, Bill Binney: “Things won’t change until we put these people in jail” The documentary ‘A Good American’ explain how 9/11 could have been prevented and how useful informations against terror attacks could have been obtained without spying on entire populations Republica.it, 11 febbraio 2017 Full text in English Below the Fold

Stephen E. Arnold: Pirate Libraries Challenge Elsevier and Thomson Reuters to Liberate Knowledge for Destitute Scholars

Avast: Pirate Libraries They are called “pirate libraries,” but one would be better-served envisioning Robin Hood than Blackbeard.  Atlas Obscura takes a look at these floaters of scientific-journal copyrights in, “The Rise of Pirate Libraries.” These are not physical libraries, but virtual ones, where researchers and other curious folks can study articles otherwise accessible only …

Jean Lievens: Is Blockchain a Threat to the Distributed Internet? UPDATED with 2 Comments

Must  read. The blockchain is a threat to the distributed future of the Internet EXTRACT The need to replicate the whole chain of blocks on our computer is an insurmountable barrier to entry if you’re searching for an alternative to IBM, Amazon or Google. The Twister chain is still small, but think about how, to …