• Cryptocurrencies,  Privacy

    Controversial Worldcoin Scans Retinas at ETH NYC, Skips Over its Messy History

    Is Big Brother attempting to recruit all the young devs?

    In our ongoing series exploring the increasing intersections of blockchain and AI, we’ve highlighted both novel approaches to combining the two exponential technologies in sectors like healthcare that impact everyone, as well as how blockchain can ensure both privacy and transparency. The latter is particularly important given the risks posed by AI — its potential to eliminate millions of jobs, including those previously deemed more immune to technology, the acceleration of deep fakes that threaten our increasingly slippery hold on what is true, the reduction in the ability of humans to control weapons of mass destruction and more. (And as evidence that these are collective concerns, when you type “biggest…

  • Security,  Technology

    Revolutionizing Healthcare with Blockchain and AI

    How companies are ensuring privacy, transparency and efficiency in critical areas

    Part two of this series exploring the growing intersections of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) illustrated how this combination is  transforming the blockchain ecosystem. The convergence is growing across a number of industries, and healthcare is a prime example. It’s also a fast-growing one. According to Morgan Stanley, the industry’s average estimated budget allocation to AI is projected to grow from 5.7% in 2022 to 10.5% in 2024. Similarly, blockchain’s market size in healthcare was valued at $1.97 billion in 2022 and is expected to expand at an eye-popping CAGR of 68% from 2023 to 2030. These growth predictions are unsurprising since, used properly, blockchain and AI can be excellent…

  • Cryptocurrencies,  Regulation

    No privacy for digital currencies: Sweden’s central bank

    According to the Sveriges Riksbank, central bank digital currencies cannot possibly have the same level of privacy as cash

    Sveriges Riksbank researchers argue that “all CBDC payments will involve reconciliation with one or more remote ledgers” that track the transactions and ownership to prevent double-spends. This requirement—according to the bank—should squash the hopes for a cash-like anonymous digital currency.

  • Bison Trails double-signing software
    Technology

    Bison Trails to support privacy-focused Oasis Network

    The move is part of the ongoing collaboration between the infrastructure-as-a-service firm and privacy-focused blockchain foundation

    Bison Trails will support the Oasis Network following collaboration on the protocol’s development over the last year. That will make setting up a node on the proof-of-stake network possible with just a few clicks.