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jean lievens
December 1, 2014 12:43 PM
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jean lievens
November 19, 2014 3:13 PM
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In certain corners of the crypto community, ‘Decentralized Autonomous Companies’ (DACs), or ‘Distributed Autonomous Organisations’ (DAOs) are all the rage. In the same way that Bitcoin is decentralizing money, DACs seem to offer the potential to decentralize the entire world of business, commerce, finance, and the economy. They are businesses that can potentially be owned and run by their customers and their ‘employees’, with no single owner, and, like Bitcoin, no central authority to act as a board of directors. They are, to some people, a big step on the road to greater freedom and autonomy in our own working lives and an antidote to the corruption and crony capitalism of our current corporate world, and the dehumanising influence that corporate hierarchies can have on regular working people.
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jean lievens
November 17, 2014 3:09 PM
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Technology is playing a key role in transforming payment systems. In the past, the immense amount of trust required to be the anchor point in these systems reduced the candidates to states and financial institutions. But now new technologies are gaining the trust required to create a clear alternative to the legacy models.
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jean lievens
November 10, 2014 11:58 AM
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Digital currency represents a decentralized form of money that is more secure, more fungible and more functional than anything we’ve seen before.
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jean lievens
November 5, 2014 12:48 PM
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German virtual currency start-up Bitcoin Brothers says it has created a chip that could revolutionize Bitcoin mining at scale.
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jean lievens
October 30, 2014 3:26 PM
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Whether you like it or not, virtually all cryptocurrencies launched to date do it on a model closer to the classic "startup" model where founders and early adopters have the potential to become super-rich.
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jean lievens
October 29, 2014 7:46 PM
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- We continue to think that bitcoiners should be keeping one eye on the larger universe of payments systems, and the developments happening over there, because as bitcoin and cryptocurrencies move further afield from their home turf, they are going to be in competition with these outsiders.
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jean lievens
October 27, 2014 4:24 PM
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The Isle of Man is definitely taking the lead when it comes to cryptocurrency-related initiatives. Many experts are expecting the island to become a major player in the industry and overshadow hot spots such as Luxembourg and Singapore, notably due to the optimistic approach that has been taken by the Government towards digital currencies.
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jean lievens
October 16, 2014 4:20 PM
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1. These are the minimally reformatted and slightly expanded notes for what would have been a 15-minute presentation.
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jean lievens
October 5, 2014 2:46 PM
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Russia’s Ministry of Finance has put forward what many were expecting yet also unable to believe: a ban on the use of digital currency, and the implementation of fines as an appropriate deterrent.
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jean lievens
October 1, 2014 6:34 PM
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When Wong served as an early director at Facebook for five years, crypto-currencies were around, but they weren’t as widely accepted or understood as they are today. He and Y Combinator head Sam Altman, who just personally led a $50 million round in the company announced today, want to use them as a tool to distribute shares in the company back to the millions of Reddit users, or Redditors, that log in every day. They’ve set aside 10 percent of the round announced today for that purpose.
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jean lievens
October 1, 2014 6:20 PM
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Efforts to explain Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general have generally focused on how they are both a new form of money as well as a challenge to existing forms of money.
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jean lievens
September 18, 2014 5:37 PM
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When we started Coinbase, we took a look at the Bitcoin Core open source project, and tried to decide how we could use it to build a web application. Bitcoin Core is a great reference implementation, but was never designed to query blockchain data in a flexible way (such as through a SQL database) or to scale to millions of users across dozens of servers. And so we built our own Bitcoin node to power Coinbase (which we’ve now scaled to 1.6M wallets).
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jean lievens
December 1, 2014 6:29 AM
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Flooz, Beenz and DigiCash all sough to be the international online currency of choice - but what happened?
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jean lievens
November 19, 2014 3:11 PM
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We all know about Bitcoin: It’s that electronic currency that exists somewhere in the ether and can be used to buy illicit products on the Internet. And it isn’t backed by hard assets (such as gold specie) or a sovereign nation.
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jean lievens
November 10, 2014 12:11 PM
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Mobile phones and the underlying technology behind crypto-currencies are helping to slash the cost of providing financial services to the poor, making the area an increasingly attractive proposition to the private sector, according to Rodger Voorhies from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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jean lievens
November 5, 2014 7:57 PM
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Cryptocurrencies and 3D-printed goods are just two of many disruptive technologies that are transforming and reshaping our economy, a conference will hear.
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jean lievens
November 1, 2014 9:34 AM
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Ellis has built software that lets anyone create what he calls a “World Citizenship” passport. Using PGP encryption software and the bitcoin blockchain—a cryptographically secured public ledger that runs on machines across the internet—the project creates a mathematically iron-clad identification paper that would be extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to fake.
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jean lievens
October 30, 2014 3:23 PM
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We started the ACM SIGAI Bay Area Chapter in Silicon Valley in April, 2014 because AI and its applications are progressing rapidly. Our goal is to create a community in which members can share insights, inspirations, and educational resources. We are especially interested in helping participants use AI technologies in new and innovative ways. The recent development of “cryptocurrencies” and “smart contracts” creates an opportunity for many new applications of AI techniques. These economic technologies would benefit from greater world knowledge and reasoning capabilities as they become integrated into human commerce. In the other direction, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts may provide an infrastructure to ensure that AI systems follow precise legal and safety rules as they interact with the world.
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jean lievens
October 27, 2014 4:27 PM
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Cryptocurrency, sometimes referred to as digital currency or alternative currency, has been making waves in the news lately, mostly due to the rapid rise in value of Bitcoin. But there are other cryptocurrencies out there that are less well-known, including one new digital currency that is backed by the generation of solar electricity.
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jean lievens
October 18, 2014 3:15 PM
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In the past few months we’ve been hearing a lot about how bitcoin’s underlying technology is going to revolutionize not only our monetary system, but also notary services, DNS, authentication, intellectual property ownership and data storage.
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jean lievens
October 5, 2014 2:47 PM
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A new platform capable of transferring almost anything over bitcoin’s block chain is aiming to innovate on competing ‘2.0’ offerings from ChromaWallet, CoinPrism, Counterparty and MasterCoin.
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jean lievens
October 2, 2014 5:41 PM
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A key element of the Fair-Coop vision is a cryptocurrency, Faircoin, which has been designed to adapt the block-chain technology of Bitcoin with a more socially constructive design.
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jean lievens
October 1, 2014 6:32 PM
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It’s hard to find many co-operatives with the kind of practical sophistication and visionary ambitions as CIC – the Catalan Integral Cooperative -- in Spain. CIC describes itself as a “transitional initiative for social transformation from below, through self-management, self-organization, and networking.” It considers the state unable to advance the public good because of its deep entanglements with market capitalism -- so it has set about building its own working alternatives to the banking system and state.
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jean lievens
September 30, 2014 5:04 PM
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Crypto-crowdfunding platform Swarm announced last week it would hold a demo day on Guy Fawkes Day for five decentralized projects, and applicants are already being screened for the event.
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