BattBump — wireless phone-to-phone charging, on the blockchain
A good Kickstarter can’t be stopped by mere laws of physics. Also, it utilises Blockchain technology.
Author: David Gerard
Initiative Q — a non-crypto private currency, marketed by pyramid scheme
“Initiative Q is building a new payment network. To get people to adopt it, they’re giving away significant sums of their future currency to early users.” It’s not a crypto, but it has similar smells.
News: Mt. Gox recovers, Bitcoin crashes, Bitfinex/Tether, Kaminska to Parliament, Hydro-Québec, TRON, EOS, Nano insecure keys
“I hate these extremely rare occurrences of crypto exchanges getting hacked once a week.”
News: Crypto hedge funds suffer, bankers on crypto’s problems, what good payment networks look like, another Civil news outlet, EOS doesn’t work, PonzICO retrospective
And I am now a waddling duck on SomethingAwful.
That weird World Cup TV ad for Hdac’s Internet of Things on the Blockchain — what’s going on here
I was trying to write about Roko’s Basilisk today. Maybe the real Basilisk was the incomprehensible, yet stupidly expensive, Bitcoin fan fiction broadcast to millions of people that we watched along the way.
News: Rip Off Britain on Bitcoin, Tether in depth, Ethereum as non-security, blockchain not up to UK welfare, Apple kicks crypto apps, religion but on the blockchain
Trust the nice BBC ladies — don’t buy Bitcoin. My goodness, the news in the last couple of days. With lengthy writeups of the details.
How To Launch A Successful ICO, 14 June 2018 — with me on the panel
Includes video of the panel!
News: Me on launching an ICO, SEC on ICOs, CFTC subpoenas exchanges, KodakCoin and NBA/NHL, 51% attacks, Mona Lisa on the blockchain, EOS security, York retrospective
Pictures from York. And “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” is cheap in Canada this month!
YouGov Direct’s “GDPR-compliant” blockchain — GDPR-laundering as a service
Polling company YouGov think that, with YouGov Direct, they can sell demographic data to advertisers in a suitably GDPR-laundered manner. Using … the blockchain!
How to record Skype audio on a PC — Open Broadcaster Software (obs-studio)
A surprisingly common technical problem — elegantly solved!