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  • Ross Ulbricht, July 2018 (via FreeRoss.org)
    Ross Ulbricht, July 2018 (via FreeRoss.org)
    Bitcoin,  Opinion

    Bitcoin criminal Ross Ulbricht does not like prison

    Thursday’s Medium post was a new move aimed at humanizing a person who did most of his crimes under a screen name from behind a computer

    June 27, 2019 /

    Time’s are tough for Silk Road Founder and hitman-hirer Ross Ulbricht. He is serving double-life plus 40 years without the possibility of parole for running a website that sold guns, drugs, and murders for bitcoin. Now he wants the world to see prisoners through his own eyes. It’s not going well.

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    Brendan Sullivan
  • The libra logo on a cellphone sitting on some coins. What else do you need to see? (via Shutterstock)
    The libra logo on a cellphone sitting on some coins. What else do you need to see? (via Shutterstock)
    Libra,  Opinion

    Why Facebook should pay every user at least $50 to use Libra

    If Facebook wants to put a price on a line of code, they need to learn to value their users’ data

    June 19, 2019 /

    Expanding its user base to the “unBooked” in the developing world won’t replace us high-dollar users in wealthy countries. But giving users $50 to try out the new payments system would show users than Facebook does respect and value your data and privacy.

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    Brendan Sullivan
  • Mural "tankman" in memory of the Tiananmen massacre of 1989. Vogelsanger Straße 283, 50825 Köln-Ehrenfeld (via Wiki Commons).
    Asia & Australia,  Opinion,  Technology

    30 Years Later, Tiananmen Square a reminder of Chinese threat to innovation

    China may be able to add another arrow to its quiver of intellectual theft: cryptocurrencies

    June 4, 2019 /

    The most promising aspects of digital assets—transactional speed and freedom, financial inclusion, and most of all anonymity—are antithetical to Chinese Communist values. And yet, in many respects, China has taken the lead on investing in this burgeoning technology.

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    Jared Whitley
  • We use this chart in the story but it was so good, we decided it should be the piece's thumbnail, too (ModernConsensus.com)
    Opinion

    The Big Picture: Retail suckers will pay for the Bitfinex/Tether fiasco

    May 17, 2019 /

    It’s one of the worst kept secrets in crypto: The recent rally in Bitcoin came from a massive issuance of tethers.

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    Lawrence Lewitinn
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