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Farcaster's ZK Anons

The pseudonymous economy is being brought to fruition on decentalized social networks like farcaster where blockchain, AI, & cryptography are being leveraged by a developer rich community to reimagine their applications.

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EZPZ Complex Passphrases with Bitwarden

There's an uber-easy way to generate what I think are arguably great passphrases within Bitwarden that are actually easy for users to type out if they need to manually enter them, opposed to the random character generated slop that ends up with normal users writing it down on a sticky note and putting inside of their desk drawer (please don't do that). I'll keep this short and sweet. Navigate into the app for the password manager Bitwarden and select the "+" button at the bottom to add a new ...

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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Do you trust your government?

This, it turns out, is an important question, because there's a strong correlation between trust in government and overall prosperity (the above chart is via NZZ). The extreme examples of distrust are somewhat intuitive. If, for example, you don't believe that your government will uphold property rights, why would you ever want to risk investing in property? But it can be even more subtle and insidious:Trust is central to both stability and development. If citizens have trust in the...

#democracy#direct-democracy#economics#gdp-per-capita#government-trust#news#nobel-prize-in-economics#nzz#oecd-countries#politics#security#trust
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Fantasmas in a FIATocracy

“Confiscation all comes down to this: the government makes the rules, changes the rules, and enforces the rules. Though it lacks the moral right, it can create legal authority.Though it lacks the constitutional empowerment, it can turn a blind eye to the Constitution…The Constitution did not stop the government from taking people’s gold in 1933.”Some historical context: The Eurodollar SystemThe Eurodollar system emerged as a workaround to the limitations of the Bretton Woods monetary system e...

#abradeux#himulation#fantasma#antibank#debanked#money#eurodollar#cryptocurrency#asset protection#privacy
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The Blockchain Experience

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The Blockchain Experience New Episode Alert: Uphold

! In this can't-miss episode of The Blockchain Experience, I chat with Robin O'Connell, CEO of Uphold's Enterprise division, about how they're transforming how we trade and manage assets across crypto, fiat, and even precious metals like gold! Why tune in:"Anything to Anything" Trading: Learn how Uphold enables seamless trading between assets in seconds, no intermediaries needed!Business & Enterprise Insights: Discover how Uphold is helping companies make cross-border payments eas...

#compliance#precious metals#security#uphold#topper#onchain#blockchain#the blockchain experience#farcaster#warpcast#cryptocurrency#crypto
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Anthenor

Messaging platforms should benefit from a “fair use” and “privacy” law

The sudden arrest of Telegram Messenger CEO, Pavel Durov, raises an important debate around freedom of speech and the need to adapt our l...

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Punks In Space

Hey friends I don't know about you, but during my formative years, I went through a particularly rebellious phase. I experimented with brightly color...

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Out of Office

MASQ Browser: dApps storeThis issue is brought to you with the support of MASQ, the dMeshVPN, browser, dAppStore, protocol, and earning ecosystem tha...

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Revisionist History

This issue is brought to you with the support of Skiff, the privacy-first productivity suite. Unfortunately, Skiff was purchased by Notion and has be...

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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Anxious urbanism

One of the first things that I noticed when I visited Rio de Janeiro a few years ago was the clear fixation on safety and security. There are gates and cameras everywhere. And the guidance you tend to receive from the locals usually resolves around how to stay safe. Don't wander around at night. Be careful when you take out your phone. Be mindful of certain areas. You know, those sorts of things. Of course, you never really know how dangerous a city is because it's one of those thin...

#book-review#crime#ed-charlton#johannesburg#london-school-of-economics#panic-city#rio-de-janeiro#safety#security#urbanism
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Albert Wenger

Privacy, Power and the Commons

Private property has become so prevalent in the world that we rarely think about the commons. Most people consider the subway as a public good, it is part of “public transport” after all. But they are unlikely to recognize the space on the subway as a common, the way a community would previously have thought about a shared pasture. The COVID19 crisis is a stark reminder that commons are all around us: A single infected subway rider not wearing a mask could infect dozens of people. How is that...

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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Safety and security per capita

This is a city metric I haven't seen before. City Observatory recently looked at the number of police officers (public) and security guards (private) per capita across American cities. They also ask a bunch of interesting questions. Why do some cities have far fewer police officers? Is high security an indicator for "anti-social capital?" (Social norms aren't encouraging people to behave.) And do some cities simply have more cops because it is perceived to be necessary? Here is what...

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Coronavirus: Privacy and Democracy

I have written and spoken a lot about how technological progress is incompatible with privacy. One example I have used is someone bioengineering a virus in their basement. It turns out a much simpler example is what we are seeing today: a new virus that’s spreading. We cannot both have fast, easy international travel and also have privacy of travelers. If you travel and later come down with the coronavirus, we need to know where you went and who else may have been exposed. At a minimum societ...

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Albert Wenger

World After Capital: Getting Over Privacy (Finish)

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post wraps up the prior discussion of why as part of increasing informational freedom we should embrace a post privacy world. —- So we can’t really protect privacy without handing control of technology into the hands of a few and conversely decentralized innovation requires reduced privacy. What should we do? The answer, I think, is to embrace a post-privacy world. We should work to protect people and their f...

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Albert Wenger

World After Capital: Getting Over Privacy (Cont’d)

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post continues on the idea from last week that privacy is not compatible with technological progress (if you would rather watch a talk, you can find some of the same material in my Blockstack Berlin presentation). —- So why do I keep asserting the impossibility of assuring privacy? Don’t we have encryption? Encryption is great for securing information in transit and at rest, but there are problems that encryp...

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Albert Wenger

World After Capital: Getting over Privacy (Intro)

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section introduces the idea that privacy is a strategy for freedom that has real downsides if we want to enter the Knowledge Age. In case you missed it, I posted a talk last week that summarizes my case for getting over privacy.Getting Over PrivacyCopyrights and patents aren’t the only legal limitations slowing down the Digital Knowledge Loop. We are actively creating new restrictions in the form of well-inte...

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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

“Alexa, play some Miles Davis”

Over the weekend I received an Amazon Echo as a gift. I set it up in my kitchen on Sunday morning and had it playing music and telling me the weather in no time. I also setup a couple of “routines” so that when I say things, such as “good morning”, it cycles through the weather, the news, and some other things that I might find valuable at the start of my day. It is pretty neat. The truth is that I have actually been avoiding voice assistants since they were first launched. As much as I consi...

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Albert Wenger

Getting over Privacy

I was overly optimistic when I thought I could resume excerpts from World After Capital today. Turns out the next section is on privacy and it needs major editing. So while I am working on that, here is the talk I gave at Blockstack Berlin that summarizes my admittedly controversial view that privacy is incompatible with technological progress. We need strategies other than privacy to remain free in the digital age.

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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Oi Rio

I just arrived in Rio de Janeiro, which is where I’ll be for the next ten days. Here is a photo looking south from the rooftop of our hotel (more photos to follow on Instagram):Today was a fairly relaxed day after many hours of travel. But tomorrow the architecture and design tour begins. I am still trying to get a feel for the city. The first thing people tell you after you arrive is to be careful. Don’t go out at night. And take Ubers. Uber is a significant advantage in a place like Rio whe...

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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

#DeleteFacebook

Earlier this week I deleted my Facebook account. If we were friends on the service and you can no longer find me, this is the reason why. Part of why I did this certainly had to do with privacy. I read Brian Acton’s (WhatsApp cofounder) account in Forbes this week. And I have been following many of the discussions over the past year:Privacy legislation is perhaps the only thing that could pose an existential threat to a business that’s entirely powered by watching and recording what people do...

#data#deletefacebook#facebook#instagram#personal-data#privacy#public#public-profile#publicness#social#social-media#twitter#uncategorized#whatsapp
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