I haven’t written a blog post about Bitcoin and the blockchain for quite a while, mostly because I spent most of my BTC energies in this First Monday article with Chris Marsden. This blog post will act in part as an introduction to the concepts for those not familiar with Read more…
It may not come as a surprise that I have a lot of left-leaning liberal friends. During last year’s UK election, most of my social timeline was strongly in favour of Labour, and they were confident that there would be a victory for the left and Ed Milliband would be Read more…
The problem It seems like every week brings a new story about stolen passwords and hacked accounts. This week Twitter locked two million accounts after a password leak was detected, and more indicative, Mark Zuckerberg had his Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked. All of these have accelerated concerns that passwords Read more…
Last month I attended the fantastic re:publica event in Berlin. It would be misleading to call it a conference, it is to a conference what Primavera is to a gig. This is the largest digital rights politics event in the world, thousands of attendees, hundreds of sessions. Art, music, culture, Read more…