The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more.

1/ Why I no longer see tech platforms as simply private companies. Let me begin w/ a definition. A Public Web Forum is a platform reachable without any private/corporate provider being traversed in the process. Then a forum is *meaningfully private* if &…

BULL 🐂 Per @DiarNewsletter, more than half a million addresses now hold $4,000-$40,000 of bitcoin. That’s 2x the 2015 bear market equivalent “true believer” base at ~15x the price. And the metric is growing again after a net flat / negative 2018.

Psychedelic drug phenomena do not justify radical new views of reality.

The Russian-flagged vessel created a five-meter hole when it rammed into the bridge.

1/ IMPORTANT-I'd stayed quiet abt this until now. The below letter was just publicly released by the #Wyoming #Blockchain Task Force. It responds to 2 letters the Uniform Law Commission sent to WY “strongly urging” it to withdraw its v impt... #blockchain…

If you shop on Amazon, an algorithm rather than a human probably set the price of the service or item you bought. Pricing algorithms have become ubiquitous in online retail as automated systems have grown increasingly affordable and easy to implement. But…

​​​​​​​Beijing must stop interfering in financial markets to profit from future foreign inflows

The $XRP daily chart has all the earmarks of a manipulated market. Manipulated markets historically have not ended well for the bag holders.

I was invited to this conference. This right here would have been a breach of contract if they allowed it. Good to know, adding the organizers to the blackest of blacklists. Speakers in blockchain: you can (should) prohibit this kind of behavior in your contract.…

1/ Do you spend all day in front of the screens, have a paid @tradingview account, and a penchant for day-trading speculative dog shit? Well then, let me blow your mind in five steps and fill it with free alpha.

The move is part of the Trump administration's effort to ease tensions with North Korea, U.S. officials said.