There are all sorts of arguments against an unconditional, universal basic income — that is, the idea of giving everyone a minimum income regardless…
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Why Buying Photoshop Instead Of Pirating It Is Ethically Wrong
Companies like Adobe that make propirateary creative software in order to charge licensing fees see themselves as selling products to a market, and see…
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Flattr: Decentralized Payments Paving A Roadless Web
Peter Sunde, recently arrested for having been the spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, is lesser known for co-creating Flattr. The fact that Flattr is…
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Solar Roadways, Please Learn From Oculus's Mistake And Become A Co-op
Solar Roadways has officially become another crowdfunding sensation. They’ve raised over $1 million USD on Indiegogo from over 25,000 people around the world, all…
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Sweden Invokes Little-Known "Perpetual Copyright" Clause Against Mercedes Ad
Sweden has invoked a previously-unknown “Perpetual Copyright” clause against carmaker Mercedes-Benz, who recited a public-domain work by the poet Boye in a recent ad….
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Security At MtGox Much Worse Than Originally Imagined
Revelations of the mismanagement at the now-bankrupt Japanese bitcoin exchange keep surfacing. When laying the puzzle as pieces keep coming, it becomes obvious that…
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Nothing New Under The Sun, Bitcoin Edition
I was invited to speak at Texas Bitcoin Conference in Austin this past week. Due to my house arrest, I’ve been largely staying low…
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The Gox Crater: Crowd Detectives Reveal Billion-Dollar Heist As Inside Job
Thousands of volunteering and self-organizing detectives have been meticulously laying a puzzle that reveals the Gox billion-dollar heist as an inside job. As smoke…
Read MoreGox Goes Belly-up After Losing A Billion Dollars Without Noticing; Blames Fault In Corporate Bookkeeping Protocols
So it’s more or less official: MtGox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has died and taken all its holdings with it to the…
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The Embarrassing Fact MtGox Left Out Of Their Press Release: Their Bad Code Hygiene Was The Direct Cause Of Problems
Yesterday, the bitcoin exchange MtGox – riddled by problems – issued a press release saying the bitcoin protocol was to blame for its ongoing…
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