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Stephen E. Arnold: MongoDB Files IPO — Should Amazon Be Their Target?

Mongo DB Position upon Filing IPO This article at Datamation, “MongoDB’s Mongo Moment,” suggests MongoDB is focused on the wrong foe. As the company filed for its $100 million IPO, its CEO Dev Ittycheria observed that competitor Oracle is “vulnerable” because it has lost appeal to developers. However, writer Matt Asay asserts developers never were …

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Berto Jongman: Hashgraph, Quantum, & Crypto

Blockchain Just Became Obsolete. The Future is Hashgraph Swirlds is a software platform that has developed the hashgraph consensus algorithm: an entirely new distributed ledger technology that is much more cost-effective (no proof-of-work), 50,000 times the speed, safer (Byzantine), more efficient (no stale blocks) and mathematically fairer than the blockchain. How China Is Using Quantum …

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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)

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Ty Simpson: Vladimir Putin – Russia Will Be First BlockChain SuperPower

Suddenly Vladimir Putin Meets Vitalik Buterin, Endorses Ethereum Russia has a chance to become one of the leaders in the global IT industry. Even though details of the meeting between Putin and Buterin are kept under the seal of secrecy, one detail leaked – the president is ready to give full support for the development …

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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 …

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Ty Simpson: Crytosecession & Taxation

Cryptosecession and the limits of taxation Cryptosecession is the use of cryptographic and blockchain-based technologies (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitnation) to economically secede from incumbent institutions—namely, the state. Jason is at the 2016 Public Choice Society conference at the moment, where he’ll be presenting a paper in which we show that the threat of cryptosecession exerts an even greater limitation on …

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