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Illustration of Amazon's cloud operations - from an Interview with Stephen E Arnold of DarkCyber by Robert David Steele (13min video). #Comment: As usual, too little resolution on the most interesting question: What is the philosophy and agenda, once all data is collected?
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Will the China of tomorrow run on the technology behind bitcoin? (scmp)
"I worry that people have oversold blockchain to Xi as a magic cure-all" - James Andrew Lewis, Centre for Strategic and International Studies
China's blockchain tech adoption inflated? New expose reveals truth behind tall claims (ibtimes, via "China: Marketing Blockchain")
“According to the Global Times, which is a Chinese state-run media house, numerous companies in China seem to find it simpler to claim that they are utilizing blockchain technology than to truly practice its application. Various Chinese firms across a variety of industries reportedly state that they are employing the use of blockchain tech in some form or another, but lack real evidence to prove that they are doing so. Global Times in their expose report that out of over 3,000 registered businesses, about 500 firms claim to be incorporating blockchain tech in their day-to-day operations, but only about 40 of these have been able to demonstrate that they are actively doing so.”
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Foreigners visiting China are increasingly stumped by its cashless society: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/11/beggars-and-toilet-paper.html
Welcome to China. You Probably Can't Buy Anything, Though: https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/20191110751/welcome-to-china-you-probably-cant-buy-anything-though #China #Economics #Crypto
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Facebook Libra is Architecturally Unsound - by Stephen Diehl: http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/libra.html #Crypto #Economics
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Wie die US-Regierung den Widerstand gegen Libra aushebeln will - by Norbert Häring: http://norberthaering.de/de/27-german/news/1190-libra-g7
G20 kicks off debate to regulate 'stablecoins' in hit to Facebook's Libra: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-worldbank-g20-stablecoin/g20-kicks-off-debate-to-regulate-stablecoins-in-hit-to-facebooks-libra-idUSKBN1WX2AH
G7 Working Group on Stablecoins. Investigating the impact of global stablecoins - by Bank for international settlements: https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d187.pdf
The agenda outlined 20 years ago in "Total Information Awareness" is playing out. Highly nonsensical, fear driven and regressive tactics for advanced human farming.
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Who is behind the Libra Association and what is the goal of Libra? - A comment by Norbert Häring. Part 1: The Association: https://kenfm.de/who-is-behind-the-libra-association-and-what-is-the-goal-of-libra-part-1-the-association/ Part 2: The goal: https://kenfm.de/who-is-behind-the-libra-association-and-what-is-the-goal-of-libra-part-2-the-goal/ #Economics #Crypto
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"President Xi Says China Should ‘Seize Opportunity’ to Adopt Blockchain": https://www.coindesk.com/president-xi-says-china-should-seize-opportunity-to-adopt-blockchain
"China Wants Communist Party Members to Pledge Loyalty on Blockchain": https://www.coindesk.com/china-wants-communist-party-members-to-pledge-loyalty-on-blockchain
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Cryptodamages: Monetary value estimates of the air pollution and human health impacts of cryptocurrency mining: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629619302701 #Crypto #ClimateChange
Results indicate that in 2018, each $1 of Bitcoin value created was responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in the US and $0.37 in China. Mining $1 worth of Bitcoin entails almost $0.5 in human and environmental costs.
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Following Wave of Shutdowns, Remaining Darknet Markets Fill the Void (Again): https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/following-wave-of-shutdowns-remaining-darknet-markets-fill-the-void-again https://darknetlive.com/darknet-forum-list/ #InfoSec #Crypto
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Growbotics AI Vision: https://medium.com/growbotics-ai-blog/growbotics-ai-vision-3f79a9e245f9
"As it turns out water leak is a harder problem to solve than learn how to use RL."
Vertical gardening, aeroponics, artificial intelligence, robotics and blockchain - all in one project: https://medium.com/growbotics-ai-blog/vertical-gardening-aeroponics-artificial-intelligence-robotics-and-blockchain-all-in-one-5d7536e2a0db
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Malta is drafting a law to give legal personality to DAOs and other decentralised systems. And yes, AIs too: https://decryptmedia.com/6981/civil-rights-for-bots
Malta is known as a premiere EU tax haven & money laundering hotspot for corruption & organised crime. It is very fitting that they are granting "legal personality" to so called "autonomous systems" (complete sci-fi BS) - to further reduce accountability & transparency.
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"China Plans to Ban Cryptocurrency Mining in Renewed Clampdown": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/china-plans-to-ban-cryptocurrency-mining-in-renewed-clampdown #Crypto #Politics
"National Development Reform Commission listed crypto-mining among a plethora of industries it intends to eliminate because they “seriously wasted resources” or polluted the environment".
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Simple flowchart. #Crypto
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Chamapesa: the open network for social savings communities: https://chamapesa.com/
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"The fetishization of measurement and its use as a means of coercion and control"
<< someone should give this talk at a bitcoin or AI conference .. just for "fun".Talk given at the Conference: "Toxic Organisations: Hyper-rationality, Managerialism and the Fetishisation of Measurement": http://www.limbus.org.uk/toxicorganizations/
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Regen Network - A blockchain project for ecological regeneration: https://www.regen.network/
https://medium.com/regen-network/welcome-to-regen-network-3ad7ce9ba1e4
White paper: http://regen-network.gitlab.io/whitepaper/WhitePaper.pdf -
Does AI Art Belong in the Physical, Digital, or Crypto World?
https://medium.com/@pindar.vanarman/does-ai-art-belong-in-the-physical-digital-or-crypto-world-3cb4fe5e01b0Interesting piece on the merger of A.I, Art & Crypto. Question: Is "AI CryptoArt" the most energy intensive art-form ever invented? e.g. very energy hungry GPUs to generate images, perversely energy hungry crypto-nets to trade those images. cc @quasimondo @DrBeef_
Going back to practical questions: In times of (climate) crisis, Art & Design are tremendously powerful communication tools which can reach places politics simply can't. Dadaism or Bauhaus are nice examples. It's time for a global cultural wildfire for sanity.
I see artists as part of the vanguard of society and wonder if new, super energy/resource intensive art-forms are the right symbol for now. I see "EcoAIArt" not only a fun challenge, but as a moral imperative & survival tool
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Bitcoin’s energy use got studied, and you libertarian nerds look even worse than usual:
https://grist.org/article/bitcoins-energy-use-got-studied-and-you-libertarian-nerds-look-even-worse-than-usual/The first peer-reviewed study of bitcoin’s energy consumption confirms fears: Bitcoin’s energy consumption is growing at 20% *per month* and is effectively erasing decades of progress on renewable energy.
Comments by vakibs:
Bitcoin is another step in the accelerating entropy of abstracting real objects into virtual pieces of information, breaking that information into pieces & revirtualizing it. What will it do to the ecosystems in the real world? What does entropy do to the real world? Surprised?
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The AI ArtDAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) - as outlined by @trentmc0 in https://www.slideshare.net/TrentMcConaghy/tokens-complex-systems-and-nature
