Scott is joined by Bill Ottman, the co-founder and CEO of Minds — a blockchain-based social network. After Twitter banned Dr. Robert Malone for spreading alleged medical misinformation, many have been voicing frustration with the major social networks. And although...
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The One-Size-Fits-All Blockchain
Recently, I tuned into the LBRY Community Podcast and near the end, they brought up a question that someone had asked about LBRY. This person wanted to know why it was not built on a privacy coin like Monero. They implied that LBRY should move to a private chain like...
Open Source Money – New Documentary Features Ross Ulbricht
The Silk road served as the first proof of concept for Bitcoin and consequently cryptocurrency and one author (Brian Iha) in his book said, "that was why Ross was the second most important figure in Bitcoin history after Satoshi." See the documentary for free here...
Episode 290: How to Overcome ‘Flintstone’s’ Governance in a ‘Jetson’s’ World
70 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited Donnie Gebert, the author of "A Direct Republic: The Null Hypothesis of Politics (How to Automate a Legislature)" to the show. Donnie is former military intelligence whose method is meant to transcend party politics. Basically, everyone...
Cody Wilson was arrested but that hasn’t stopped 3D-gun printing
A new network of 3D-printed gun advocates is growing in America – and this time things are different. Unlike previous attempts to popularise 3D-printed guns, this operation is entirely decentralised. There’s no headquarters, no trademarks, and no real leader. The...
Episode 120: Derek Magill Talking Bitcoin and the Blockchain
55 minutes Mance welcomes the founder of the Nakamoto Studies Institute Derek Magill to the show. Derek founded the institute with the goal of curating, annotating, and popularizing Satoshi's original writings and contextualizing them within Bitcoin's future as BCH....
IBM Announcement Proves the Blockchain Has Officially Gone Mainstream
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. In January, tech giant IBM was able to happily report to investors that after 22 consecutive quarters — nearly six years — of declining revenue growth, the company saw gains in the last quarter of 2017. In a news...
SEC Warns of ‘Potentially Unlawful’ Platforms That Trade in Cryptocurrency
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. A federal crackdown may be looming over the cryptocurrency world. On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a warning on “potentially unlawful” online platforms used to trade digital...
SEC Warns of 'Potentially Unlawful' Platforms That Trade in Cryptocurrency
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. A federal crackdown may be looming over the cryptocurrency world. On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a warning on “potentially unlawful” online platforms used to trade digital...
Government Needs a Blockchain, and a Hard Fork
Health care, taxes, education, foreign policy – everything needs to be reformed, and fast. The situation with Congress, however, is impossible. Every Democrat is dedicated to opposing anything put forward by the Republican majority. Within that majority, there are...
Central Bank Embrace of Blockchain is All About Control
The recent news in the Bitcoin world is China's building attempt to regulate and oversee its use to a point where it is rendered nearly useless for Chinese consumers. They've realized that they can't truly kill it per se, but they can regulate the exchanges to a point...
Cryptocurrency Will Survive And Thrive, But Will Bitcoin?
March 2017 came in like a lion for Bitcoin as, for the first time ever, one Bitcoin sold for more than one ounce of gold. As I write this, the Bitcoin currently in circulation, if sold at current prices, would bring in more than $20 billion US (that’s nearly 12 times...
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