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Tag: democracy

February 18, 2020by Laura Shin

Democracy in the Age of Cryptography

Santiago Siri, the cofounder and president of Democracy Earth, reads from his essay on how governance and identity change in the age of cryptography. Thank you to our sponsors!  Kraken:[…]

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Posted in: 2020, Shows, UnchainedTagged in: bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, Cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, Cryptography, democracy, Essay, ethereum, identity, investment, North Korea

February 11, 2020by Laura Shin

Alex Gladstein on a World Without Bitcoin

Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation, reads his essay, A World Without Bitcoin.  Thank you to our sponsors!  CipherTrace: https://ciphertrace.com Crypto.com: https://crypto.com/  Kraken: https://www.kraken.com A World[…]

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Posted in: 2020, Shows, UnchainedTagged in: bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, Cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, democracy

December 10, 2019by Laura Shin

Yeonmi Park on Why Doing Business With North Korea Is Like Buying a Ticket to a Concentration Camp

In light of the questions around whether or not Virgil Griffith’s talk at a blockchain conference in Pyongyang could have helped everyday North Koreans, Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector,[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnchainedTagged in: blockchain, democracy, Human Rights Foundation, North Korean

November 15, 2019by Laura Shin

An Interview With the Anonymous Developer of HKmap.live

This episode features an email interview with Kuma, the pseudonymous administrator of HKmap.live, a site showing a real-time crowd-sourced map of protests in Hong Kong, which Kuma believes is the first[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: beginner, bitcoin, censorship, crypto, democracy

November 1, 2019by Laura Shin

Why the Digital Yuan Could One Day Be Seen as a Blunder

Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, explains why he believes China’s new pro-blockchain stance could turn out to be a blunder for the country and why[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: bitcoin, blockchain, CBDC, chaina, democracy, human rights

February 26, 2019by Laura Shin

How Blockchains Can Help Create Little Democracies Everywhere

Glen Weyl, a political economist and social technologist, the coauthor of Radical Markets and a principal researcher at Microsoft, and Santiago Siri, the founder of Democracy Earth, discuss how blockchains[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnchainedTagged in: democracy, identity, voting

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