Trudeau government to introduce national “Digital Identity Program”
“The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for government services to be accessible and flexible in the digital age. The next step in making services more convenient to access is a federal Digital Identity Program, integrated with pre-existing provincial platforms,” the report explained.
Code Is Speech: Amir Taaki on Crypto's Debt to Phil Zimmerman
Link: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2018/07/12/code-is-speech-amir-taaki-on-cryptos-debt-to-phil-zimmerman/
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A large fraction of American society would take up arms against tyranny if pushed far enough. Tyrants massively underestimate this fraction and over estimate how far they can push. This means that the eventual failure of tyrants will be a little bumpy, but all out war is, in my view, extremely unlikely.
Bitcoin is better than money. Money 💰 is a technology compromise…what people want is something to hold that grows in value that they can transfer in exchange for goods and services. What people end up with is something that doesn’t grow in value but works well for borrowing as it often slowly loses value. Gold was the best money in terms of not losing value…
And then came bitcoin. Individuals can now get something more in-line with their desires: something that increases in value with time.
we're wasting orders of magnitude more computing power than we need
software is not immaterial, this means we are wasting rare earths, fossil fuels, chemical catalysts and other ingredients
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I gotta say, it’s not the most classy thing I’ve seen him do. In every other respect, he has been very reasonable…he promoted understand of what models are good and importantly not good for…but he is now describing trading strategies which is a little sus…
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