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The day when all the money becomes digital money, is the day when we are going to become slaves
The day when all the money becomes digital money, is the day when we are going to become slaves
Racist currency
First time I heard f something like that
Racist currency
Useless invention - useful for bank only
Useless invention - useful for bank only
Why ?
Claude Kramer, "Decoding Bitcoin: All You Need To Know About The New World Currency" : the book
Bitcoin is heading downhill. Better pack your bags and grab whatever you can.
Bitcoin is heading downhill. Better pack your bags and grab whatever you can.
It is going to get worse : Venom VM bug called “perfect” for NSA, or for stealing bitcoins and passwords | Ars Technica
Anybody can steal your bitcoins
It is going to get worse : Venom VM bug called “perfect” for NSA, or for stealing bitcoins and passwords | Ars Technica Anybody can steal your bitcoins
Interesting
I am in a wrong kind of business
Interesting I am in a wrong kind of business
Bitcoin was always that - just a money laundering scheme. It was due to be shut down sooner or later. Fiat money laundering is the privilege of the state not of individuals
The alleged Bitcoin founder went to law school for fun — and that says a lot about what Bitcoin is really for
The New York Times' Nathaniel Popper thinks that he's found Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive, pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.
Popper thinks Satoshi is Nick Szabo, a programmer with a longtime interest in cryptography and law. Szabo even went to law school at one point (for fun, basically).
According to his new book, Digital Gold (which comes out next week), Popper met Szabo at a party and asked him about about his time at George Washington:
He had returned to school in part because he had become convinced that the singular focus on markets, among libertarians and crypto-anarchists, was naive. Szabo believed that society had multiple "protocols" beneath markets, such as the legal system, which determined how markets worked. All of this, though, had just been a hobby for Nick, until very recently.
If it's true that Szabo is Satoshi, and this really is the reason that Szabo went to law school, that adds a really interesting layer to the history of bitcoin. It means that bitcoin was created with more thought toward US legal structure than it's normally given credit for.
That's becoming relevant now as bitcoin becomes more popular and the companies that use it and promote it become increasing regulated.
Szabo has certainly been thinking about contracts and how programming can be applied to the legal system for a while. In 1997, he published a paper on smart contracts in First Monday, a peer-reviewed journal about internet economics. Smart contracts would apply the idea of rules dictating property ownership (which is what contracts are) to the digital realm. Instead of having to go to a lawyer to know the rules, a computer can just assign property based on what its code says.
In his paper from almost two decades ago, he actually predicted a smart contract that exists today: auto lenders being able to remotely disable a car's ignition if the owner misses a payment.
Here's the idea, from Szabo's 1997 paper:
...we can create a smart lien protocol: if the owner fails to make payments, the smart contract invokes the lien protocol, which returns control of the car keys to the bank. This protocol might be much cheaper and more effective than a repo man. A further reification would provably [sic] remove the lien when the loan has been paid off, as well as account for hardship and operational exceptions. For example, it would be rude to revoke operation of the car while it's doing 75 down the freeway.
And the way the current system works for many subprime lenders, according to a 2014 New York Times story:
But before they can drive off the lot, many subprime borrowers like Ms. Bolender must have their car outfitted with a so-called starter interrupt device, which allows lenders to remotely disable the ignition. Using the GPS technology on the devices, the lenders can also track the cars’ location and movements.
The devices, which have been installed in about two million vehicles, are helping feed the subprime boom by enabling more high-risk borrowers to get loans. But there is a big catch. By simply clicking a mouse or tapping a smartphone, lenders retain the ultimate control. Borrowers must stay current with their payments, or lose access to their vehicle.
Can you imagine thinking of that mechanism back in 1997?
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