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!
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West Virginia’s Voatz blockchain voting pilot … is another single-user blockchain as a database
The West Virginia blockchain voting pilot just records the votes in a private blockchain, used as a database. Apparently, this is a big win for voting on the blockchain.
News: Zimbabwe crypto ban, crypto Lambos, Quinn DuPont, Bitmain and Circle with USD Coin, anime girls on the blockchain
Quinn DuPont’s book is going to be a good one, and you should get it when it’s out.
“Welcome to the Blockchain”: my slides from Berenberg’s “Blockchain: From Hype To Reality”
I did a talk today — here’s the slides. Explaining blockchains, why Bitcoin fans are like they are, and blockchain use cases in business.
Oh, eMusic, no — don’t go blockchain! Another Kodak moment
Today’s blockchain post is over on Rocknerd — it’s early dot-com era downloaded music company eMusic taking the final resort of an utterly buggered company.
Debunking ‘But Bitcoin is like the early Internet!’
Of course it isn’t like the Internet. But this claim keeps coming up. Includes technologies Bitcoin and blockchains are actually comparable to.
News: Me at Intelligence Squared, MailChimp bans crypto, ICOs suing over ad bans, Reddit drops Bitcoin, Bitfinex avoids Petro, Sichuan demolishes hydro, bad blockchain laws, Wall Street not so blockchain
Crypto Fools’ Day is, of course, January 9. In cryptocurrency, every day is January 9.
Blockchain identity: Cambridge Analytica, but on the blockchain
We’ve been reminded in the past week just how dangerous vast collections of personal data can be. They won’t be less dangerous on a blockchain.
Leaked: A bad EU motion promoting blockchains coming up for vote — contact your MEPs
The EU Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is voting on a motion that’s a compendium of every spurious hypothetical blockchain use case they could find — so it’s worth answering in full. Contact your MEPs as well.
Do you need a Blockchain? Probably less than Wüst and Gervais think you do
Wüst and Gervais’ paper “Do you need a Blockchain?” is pretty good, but goes a bit far in claiming use cases for blockchains. You’ll basically never need a so-called “permissioned blockchain.”