Berto Jongman: Blockchain Hacked

Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked In total, hackers have stolen nearly $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency since the beginning of 2017, mostly from exchanges, and that’s just what has been revealed publicly.

Penguin: Open Source Blockchain w/o Native Crypto

Yosemite X announces first open-source public blockchain without native cryptocurrency Yosemite X, a blockchain technology company, today announced the release of its open-source public blockchain that operates without a native cryptocurrency, giving developers and businesses the ability to build solutions and reduce costs, without the price volatility of crypto. This approach enables companies to reap …

Stephen E. Arnold: Facebook, WhatsApp, Enabling Crypto-Porn

Facebook: WhatsApp and In App Payment I noted two developments which Facebook may roll out. The first is the story in Newsweek “WhatsApp Child Porn Groups Exposed.” WhatsApp is an encrypted messaging service. As pressure on “old school” Dark Web sites continues to escalate, bad actors are looking for new, easy ways to communicate, share, …

Robert Steele: Plans for Displacement of #GoogleGestapo UPDATE 2

UPDATE 1: Our lead engineer explorer comments. Please note that Thin Thread from Pretty Good Knowledge will be the backbone of our global search and sense-making engine. The malicious digital assassination of Gab has energized funders and plans are advancing for a calculated integral displacement of the entire #GoogleGestapo ecology that should be — but …

Stephen E. Arnold: IBM Blockchain Banking – Amazon Too But Better?

IBM Embraces Blockchain for Banking: Is Amazon in the Game Too? IBM recently announced the creation of LedgerConnect, a Blockchain powered banking service. This is an interesting move for a company that previously seemed to waver on whether it wanted to associate with this technology most famous for its links to cryptocurrency. However, the pairing …

Stephen E. Arnold: Roubini Trashes Crypto…

Jason Bloomberg writing in Forbes. ‘Dr. Doom’ Economist Nouriel Roubini Bearish On Everything Crypto Economist and New York University professor Nouriel Roubini is perhaps best known for calling the 2008 financial crisis in a series of articles and presentations starting in 2006. However, Roubini is no one trick pony – his research on emerging markets …

John M. Newman: The Myth of the Free (George Washington Law Review, 86/2, March 2018) – Death Roll for #GoogleGestapo

The Myth of Free 86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 513 The task is urgent: the Myth of Free is not benign. It has misled courts into granting protected legal status to Free-product suppliers in cases ranging from contract disputes to antitrust and privacy litigation. It has also motivated policy proposals that call for eliminating market interventions—or competitive …