Anonymous ID: 4347c3 Feb. 20, 2020, 2:38 p.m. No.8198567   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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narrative's a bitch. cuz from the soundbytes I heard, he made moar sense than anyone else in that room.

 

in fact if yous told me he was on Trump's payroll…omg kek

Anonymous ID: 4347c3 Feb. 20, 2020, 2:40 p.m. No.8198578   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8584 >>8596 >>8599 >>8618 >>8638 >>8650 >>9182 >>9211

MIT researchers: A blockchain doesn’t fix this unsecure voting app. Voatz, a mobile app that purports to allow secure online voting using a blockchain, is riddled with security holes, researchers have concluded in a new report.

 

The authors found that the app, which has already been used by West Virginia for a federal election in 2018 and for other elections in Denver, Oregon, and Utah has vulnerabilities that would allow adversaries to alter, stop, or expose a user’s vote.

 

Voatz claims to use a combination of secure hardware, biometrics, and a private blockchain to record users’ secret ballots in a tamper-resistant way. But it has revealed very few technical details about its system, and has resisted calls by election security advocates and elected officials to provide more information for public scrutiny. The MIT researchers, who say this is the first public security review of the system, had to reverse engineer it.

 

They found no evidence that the Android app itself interacts with a blockchain.

 

The initial deployments of the app have targeted voters who live overseas, and fewer than 600 voters have used the system, according to the company. That’s 600 too many, according to the authors of the new report, who note that it’s not clear that any kind of online voting can satisfy the requirements of democratic elections. “Given the severity of failings discussed in this paper, the lack of transparency, the risks to voter privacy, and the trivial nature of the attacks, we suggest that any near-future plans to use this app for high-stakes elections be abandoned."

 

By subscription, anons. You'll to dig for moar sauce.

Anonymous ID: 4347c3 Feb. 20, 2020, 2:41 p.m. No.8198584   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8591 >>8596 >>8618 >>8638 >>8650

Bitcoin mining is so hot right now (in Texas).

 

After going quiet for an extended period thanks to “crypto winter,” the business of Bitcoin mining is back. Just ask Peter Thiel, who is backing a crypto-mining startup called Layer1 Technology, which has raised more than $50 million from venture capitalists and just opened a 30-acre mining facility in Texas. Layer1 joins several companies, including once-dominant firm Bitmain, that have built or expanded mining operations in recent months.

 

Why Texas? Layer1’s CEO Alexander Liegl tells Fortune that “the cheapest electricity in the world, at scale, is in West Texas right now” thanks to a combination of factors including a glut of natural gas from fracking and renewable power investments by the state government that have resulted in inexpensive wind power.

 

A resurgent Bitmain has also targeted Texas, and recently opened a 50 megawatt (MW) mining site there that it plans to expand to 300 MW. And a third competitor, Northern Data AG, is also setting up shop in the Lone Star State, with a 100-acre mining farm. Layer1 hasn’t revealed how much capacity its new site has at the moment, but the company tells The Block that it expects to reach 100 MW within months.

 

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Anonymous ID: 4347c3 Feb. 20, 2020, 2:42 p.m. No.8198596   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8615 >>8618 >>8635 >>8638 >>8650

Sweden is now testing its digital version of cash.

 

The Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, has announced the launch of a year-long pilot project of its proposed e-krona. The project will use distributed ledger technology inspired by the blockchains that run cryptocurrencies.

 

Physical cash is headed toward obsolescence in Sweden. Nearly everyone uses a mobile payment application called Swish, and it’s been estimated that retailers could stop accepting cash by 2023. This concerns the country’s central bankers, for two reasons. First, they fear if the payment infrastructure is left completely to the private sector certain groups might be excluded. Second, if people lose the ability to convert their commercial bank account money into a form of “cash” backed by the government it might undermine their faith in the money system.

 

That’s why, a few years ago, the Riksbank began investigating the possibility of a state-backed digital currency that might play a similar role that physical cash does today.

 

For a recent article on the future of cash, I spoke with Riksbank economist Gabriel Söderberg, who argued that whereas private companies are motivated by profit, the central bank would be focused on offering a public good. It has an incentive to focus on making a digital payment system that is user-friendly and accessible to everyone.

 

According to a press release, the pilot project will run until the end of February 2021. But there could be more tests. “There is currently no decision on issuing an e-krona, how an e-krona might be designed or what technology might be used.” Söderberg told me that the decision over whether to issue a sovereign digital currency will need to involve the Swedish public. “This decision is too big for a central bank alone, at least in the Swedish context.”

 

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Anonymous ID: 4347c3 Feb. 20, 2020, 2:45 p.m. No.8198618   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8638 >>8650 >>8662

Loose change

Fill your pockets with these newsy tidbits.

 

Michael Bloomberg has unveiled a stance on cryptocurrency policy, making his the only active Democratic presidential campaign to address the topic directly. (TR) Remember, President Trump has only spoken out once about crypto since he’s been in office, and he did not say nice things.

 

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) today announced that it will use a blockchain application to distribute one million tickets to fans’ mobile phones, which it says will prevent illegal duplication. (Decrypt)

BitGo, which develops technology for financial institutions to securely store crypto-assets, has acquired Harbor, which develops technology to “tokenize” company shares and other securities. (The Block)

 

Enigma MPC, a startup focused on smart contract privacy, has settled with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over charges that it sold unregistered securities during its 2017 ICO, which raised $45 million. (CoinDesk)

 

Brazil’s central bank says that in November it will launch a near-instant payment system that will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (Reuters)

 

US crypto firm Paxos says it has teamed with Credit Suisse and Japanese financial institution Nomura to pull off the first live blockchain-based settlement of US equities. (CoinDesk)

 

 

 

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Anonymous ID: 4347c3 Feb. 20, 2020, 2:46 p.m. No.8198638   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8650 >>8702

US DNI Hiring Money Expert'''

 

THE MONEY QUOTE

 

“The US should prepare to identify potential ‘black swan’ events that could revolutionize the financial playing field in ways we do not yet understand.”

 

—Part of the description for a recently posted postdoctoral research position with the US Director of National Intelligence. Whoever lands the job will be charged with “evaluating the impact of the US dollar losing its status as world reserve currency.”

 

 

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