Wielding Blockchain Technology Against Disinformation

2. It's easy for hackers to exploit the ignorance of laypeople.3. If something goes wrong, there is no central government to ensure democracy.4. As a result of its extreme privacy, blockchain is open to abuse. It is technically possible to abuse edTech.5. Innovately secure, but not unbreakable. In recent years, hackers have become more creative.

Crypto/blockchain is a fundamental innovation that addresses an important problems facing us in the world today: too much power concentrated in the hands of a few corporations and governments.

For underserved and unbanked populations – 1 billion of whom have mobile phones – crypto offers a shot at financial inclusion. Flowcarbon is revamping carbon credits by making these increasingly important units of account transparent and traceable on blockchains. DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations, show how strangers can coor... See more

Crypto and blockchain-based applications aim to steer the web towards its original vision: an open network, based on public-domain protocols, controlled by no one. It promises to enable "decentralized" alternatives to the tech and government giants we all know and love.

While blockchain proponents speak about a “future of the web” based around public ledgers, anonymity, and immutability, those of us who have been harassed online look on in horror as obvious vectors for harassment and abuse are overlooked, if not outright touted as features.

The media keeps referring to cryptocurrencies, even when talking of non-currency tokens, while reducing the underlying blockchain networks to objects of speculation, instead of focusing on the fact that they provide - first and foremost - a promising governance infrastructure that could resolve many problems of the Internet we use today, such as: (... See more

Blockchains are not simply about money. The modern-day alchemists who minted Bitcoin and other digital assets have animated a generation of technologists to reimagine how the financial and commercial world operates. The vision that these technologists aim to bring to fruition is not just about payment systems and other financial instruments. Large ... See more