Our lack of interest in data ethics will come back to haunt us

2018-11-3 21:30

When was the last time you saw a creepy ad on Facebook, which seemed to know about a product you were discussing with a coworker? Or when was the last time you noticed that your Google search had been modified to suit variables like your current location and personal interests? These micro-events happen on a daily basis for most of us, and are reminders of how valuable and how ubiquitous our data really is.

Data is the currency of the new world, and with 2. 5 quintillion bytes of data created each day, that status isn’t going away anytime soon. The…

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When Smart Contracts Act Stupid: Is Your ICO Smart Contract Safe & Secure?

The potential inherent in smart contracts is immense. The nascent technology may be used for identity verification, secure data sharing, and for the management of tokens and raised funds in an initial coin offering/token sale – but just how clever are your smart contracts? The Ethereum network boasts more than 1500 decentralized applications (dApps), all of which make use of smart contracts to accomplish a wide variety of tasks.

2018-7-24 03:00


STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency.

2018-7-21 23:03


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This visualization of Venmo’s public data is terrifying

PayPal’s peer-to-peer payment app, Venmo, is one of the modern world’s greatest conveniences. It’s a simple way to send people money without jumping through a bunch of hoops. But, what if you found out that every transaction you completed with the app was, by default, instantly uploaded to the internet for the entire world to see? You’d be upset right? Well, as it turns out, if you never changed the privacy settings in your Venmo account you’re sharing your transaction history with everyone.

2018-7-17 20:48


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Crypto Miners Receive Approval from New York for Favorable Electricity Rates

New York is seeking to foster growth in its cryptocurrency mining sector, with the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) approving new electricity rates for Massena Electric Department. These requests come mainly from similar types of potential customers: server farms, generally devoted to data processing for cryptocurrencies. What is your response to the introduction

2018-7-14 06:36


Supreme Court ruling adds privacy protection for the digital age

Your phone knows where you’ve been. LightAndShare/Shutterstock.com Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University The Supreme Court has handed down a landmark privacy decision in a case about cellphone location data, suggesting there should be stronger protections against government searches for the increasing amount of private information that’s stored online. The case relates to location information routinely […]

2018-7-9 05:10


Cloud mining market reports offers an in-depth research of key business tendencies and future market development prospects

Report on Cloud Mining market is a combination of primary and secondary research data collected in numerous surveys and interviews conducted This press release was orginally distributed by SBWire Pune, India — (SBWIRE) — 06/15/2018 — Investing in cloud mining (cloud mining) is the most reasonable step in preserving and increasing your crypto-currency assets at the …

2018-7-9 12:59


File your crypto taxes with TokenTax

Filing taxes has always been a headache. To be absolutely sure of including all the data, computing everything to the point, and calculating each figure correctly gets troublesome. It is only so troublesome in fiat money, can you imagine what it would be like to file cryptocurrency tax? Aren’t cryptocurrencies tax-free? Yes and no.

2018-6-11 16:38

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On Radical Markets

Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.

2018-7-21 04:03


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What VC funds wish your startup knew about their selection process

Venture Capital is a competitive game, so understanding the VC process is integral to your success. There’s no doubt that some qualities are non-negotiable for VC funds. VCs want to see a large and growing market, a highly capable team, a deep understanding of the strategy around the startup’s product or solution, and a high level of capital efficiency and scalability.

Why Silicon Valley will always need Wall Street

The impressive rise of Silicon Valley as it became the global hub of technological innovation certainly took many on Wall Street by surprise. As time has gone on, I’ve seen many begin to muse that the era of Wall Street’s financial dominance over technology could be over, especially as private lenders and burgeoning tech firms in Silicon Valley carved out an impressive empire for themselves on the West coast.

Why farmers hold the answer to making the personal data economy work

In the consumer world, personal data has been used as a “payment” for services, whether that be a Facebook account or a grocery discount or a loyalty rewards program. If you take the Facebook example, consumers “pay” for the service by supplying data which in turn makes the company money through ads that rely on this data.

The first self-driving car by 2020: just another lofty promise?

It seems we have another ambitious promise from a leader in the autonomous vehicle industry. Earlier this month, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and a bunch of other futuristic startups, said that he anticipates completion of fully autonomous technology by the end of 2019, with their self-driving vehicles being so advanced in 2020 that the driver can basically take a nap.