Sean Brizendine: Equality and Governance on the Blockchain — No, Government Cannot Confiscate and Control….

When it comes to Blockchain technology everyone is equal. Sure some might have more hash power than others but that does not mean that that they are unequal because there is nothing stopping them from obtaining more hashes themselves if need be. For instance, if the Governments were to embrace Bitcoin or Ethereum or others …

Sepp Hasslberger: The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) with Comments from Phi Beta Iota Editors

This is about de-centralising the net, distributing the data to the periphery where it’s needed, rather than running everything through big data pipes and central servers… HTTP is obsolete. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web HTTP is broken. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia …

Sepp Hasslberger: Edward West on Collaborative Technology Alliance

Doing more together, together: seeding a Collaborative Technology Alliance From the beginning. Last month, a group of 35 designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs from all over the world gathered in Oakland, California. Together, we are working on the creation of tools, strategies, and networks to build a new collaborative commons. Our group consisted of founders and …

Who Is Vitalik Buterin?

Vitalik Buterin is a programmer, writer, founder of Ethereum, the decentralized web 3.0 publishing platform and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, a website and print magazine that covers Bitcoin-related topics.[1][2][3] In 2014, Buterin won the World Technology Award for the co-creation and invention of Ethereum.[4] Buterin was born in Russia, grew up in Canada, and currently …

Jean Lievens: YouTube (1:10:08) Decentralized Autonomous Society Meetup #1 in Palo Alto, 10 January 2014

Live video broadcast of the very first Decentralized Autonomous Society Meetup in Palo Alto, California. Presenting: “The Philosophy of Autonomy” by Joel Dietz, co-founder DAS, SWARM – Texture, co-founder DAS, Ethereum – Vitalik, founder Ethereum – Eric Smalls, founder MANNA – Paige Peterson, Maidsafe. In Palo Alto in the early 1990s were born the first …

Sepp Hasslberger: YouTube (4:29) Decentralized Internet

A little talk on why we should decentralize the internet… From the Speaker: As technology is being used to control humanity more and more there lies an unsuspecting beacon of hope that will change everything. The decentralized internet! Watch as this lamen explains these concepts for other lamen. Spread the hype!