“Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains.”
“People with the implants can wave their hand near a machine to unlock their office or gym, rather than taking out a key card. Many microchip users are not concerned with hacking or surveillance at this point.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/swedish-people-embed-microchips-under-skin-to-replace-id-cards-2018-5
“The Norwegian and British reports come approximately one week after U.S. Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard expressed her opposition to the suggestion of central bank-issued cryptocurrencies.”
Read more: https://news.bitcoin.com/norway-and-england-contemplate-central-bank-issued-cryptocurrencies/
“The Harare High Court has lifted a ban by the central bank which barred all banks and financial institutions from offering services to cryptocurrency exchanges. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) failed to appear for court proceedings.”
Read more: https://www.ccn.com/breaking-zimbabwe-court-lifts-central-banks-banking-ban-on-bitcoin-exchanges/
“We are enabling an alternative physical communication layer for bitcoin. The result will be a more resilient, censorship-resistant and decentralized network.”
Read more: https://inthemesh.com/archive/txtenna-decentralizing-last-mile-bitcoin/
“Since starting Obelisk, we’ve learned a lot about the mining space, as relevant to GPUs, to ASICs, to FPGAs, to ASIC resistance, mining farms, electricity, and to a whole host of other subjects that coin developers should be more aware of.”
Read more: https://blog.sia.tech/the-state-of-cryptocurrency-mining-538004a37f9b
“Argentine entrepreneur Wences Casares has spent the past several years persuading Silicon Valley millionaires and billionaires that Bitcoin is the global currency of the future, that they need to buy some, and that he’s the man to safeguard it.”
“The event was a coming-out party for a new, and suddenly wealthy industry that has few regulations and isn’t chastened by scandals that have held back Wall Street and now Silicon Valley.”
“Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the ‘import’ of labor — the in-migration of human beings.”
Read more: https://liberty-intl.org/2018/05/open-borders-trade-migration-entrepreneurship-and-prosperity/
“A profound implication of some highly decentralized networks is the opportunity, at scale, to deliver stronger assurances than even the largest nation-states today.”