THE POLITICS OF CRYPTOGRAPHY: BITCOIN AND THE ORDERING MACHINES
It was April 10th, 2013 and the price of a single Bitcoin surged past 250 USD on the Mt. Gox exchange.
Category: Cryptography
DIY Steganography: a simple method to hide secret messages in your tweets
An easy yet powerful method Javascript
TECHNOLOGICALLY ENHANCED BASIC INCOME AS A SOLUTION TO TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT
The ideas presented in this article developed in response to help resolve some of the problems which will result from technological unemployment. We believe that as machines become more intelligent and work currently done by human beings become automated there will be a sharp increase in the unemployment rate as humans are laid off to be replaced by intelligent machines. We believe that intelligent machines can be leveraged to provide a basic dividend to a decentralized pseudo-anonymous group of owners as a means of providing an axillary safety-net which cannot be shut down by any government or corporation.
Cypherpunks by Julian Assange et al. (2012) – Book Review
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet is a fascinating series of conversations between Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann.