Antanicus @Antanicus@social.coop
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"These days every geek has an ICO white paper in their hands and they're pushing (their algorithm). More than half of them are broken," Sirer said. Sirer's team at Cornell is developing a green blockchain algorithm called proof-of-useful work, in which the next computer to validate a block and collect new coins is chosen based on energy expended performing a useful function in the real world."
An interesting idea, that's for sure.
""We are helping the community when there are sick children. They call me on the radio and we take the children to the health centre," he says. Similarly, more children are now at school because it is more affordable"
This is the true meaning of renewable energy: communities helping themselves out of poverty, sickness, ignorance, thanks to low cost, locally produced energy. No other source of energy, and least of all nuclear, has the same revolutionary potential.
Switched To Linux | Episode 64 / Tin Foil Hat Time: "Digital Societies are Upon Us".
Estonia has a new digital citizen society that is mandatory for citizens. Biometric data, fingerprints, health records, medical information, facial recognition, bank accounts, citizens social media status..
Anyone regardless of country "can" participate on this. All of the data is centralized.
--> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scPyJrOvyOU
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#eEstonia #Estonia #SwitchedToLinux #TomM #biometric #data #citizenship #socialpoints
L'approssimazione dilaga, resistere è un dovere. Leggiamo tanto, leggiamo tutt*, anche qui su mastodon. 
From the Solarpunk Aesthetic tumblr:
Biotechnologist Marin Sawa and her University of London research group have created a proof-of-concept for printing solar cells onto paper using carbon nanotubes and cyanobacteria.
This technology is "[...] capable of generating a sustained electrical current both in the dark (as a ‘solar bio-battery’) and in response to light (as a ‘bio-solar-panel’) with potential applications in low-power devices."
Awesome news: thanks to the support of SolidFund we have 10 #free tickets available for low-income people in worker #coops to join our #UK workshops. 🎉
Please share with cooperators around #Manchester + #London.
The future is cooperative 🌶
Is anyone creating videos and uploading them to #PeerTube?
I ask because I'd love to have something to watch on here. 😛
@Antanicus not to mention the 'cult' aspects...
"Both Bitcoin and Ethereum mining are very centralized, with the top four miners in Bitcoin and the top three miners in Ethereum controlling more than 50% of the hash rate.
The entire blockchain for both systems is determined by fewer than 20 mining entities."
In other words: decentralization in the crypto space is a myth, just as it is a myth that cryptos are currencies at all.
http://hackingdistributed.com/2018/01/15/decentralization-bitcoin-ethereum/
TFW you accidentally load Twitter without uBlock Origin enabled and notice just what a horribly ad-polluted garbage experience it is for most users.
Amazing video on fascism in Star Wars by Lindsay Ellis. She’s probably the greatest critic of our time. This video illuminates a lot of unpleasant truths about our current political systems https://youtu.be/XAVeyXwy3BE
Interesting article about the development of new natural yarns, necessary because most of the micro plastic pollution in the Ocean comes from synthetic fibres in our clothes.
https://fashnerd.com/2018/06/fashionforgood-sustainability-accelerator-innovators
Social democratic parties are standing on two pillars, trade unionism and cooperativism.
- Unions offer higher wages and working conditions.
- Coops offer cheaper goods and services.
These pillars enabled economic self-help for people. It's different (not better) than general uni activism or a NGO with equally or more noble cause.
Relevant article by @ntnsndr
Lack of focus on economic self-help might help explain Pikettys findings below:
