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A bunch of intriguing articles about blockchain.


Are You Frightened Yet, Human?: "Orwell’s 1984 Could Happen In 2024"

28 May 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Leviathann

If lawmakers do not protect the public from artificial intelligence, life as depicted in George Orwell's 1984 "could come to pass in 2024," Microsoft's president has warned. A top Microsoft official cautioned on Thursday that the rapid advancement o...

Counting the Uncounted: What is the ID2020 Project?

26 May 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Leviathann

  An estimated 1.1 billion people worldwide cannot officially prove their identity, according to the 2017 update of the World Bank’s Identification for Development (ID4D) Global Dataset. How can we demonstrate our identity to the indivi...

Don't Track Me: How to Increase Your Privacy

25 May 2021 2 minute read 5 comments Leviathann

As the internet becomes more tangled with daily life, it becomes increasingly important to watch how you protect yourself. Trusting websites, browsers, and internet service providers is not enough. As an empowered internet user, it is your r...

Bitcoin and Its Hidden Story

23 May 2021 2 minute read 4 comments Leviathann

CHAPTER #1 ###Depression### // Illusion: The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds // Everything was going to start with a shock. Subprime Mortgage Crisis The subprime mortgage crisis is a home loan system with a fixed interest rate or the opportunity to find...

How Everything Started: Cypherpunks

23 May 2021 4 minute read 3 comments Leviathann

###Encrypted### // The Dream: A Borderless and Virtual World // KRIWnsxsHKOVCyBjPsmLWBcRoIqKgWER5G9PJVP/f4Y= Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and we’re going to write it. Eric Hughes The Cypherpu...