Weekend Roundup: Trouble at Bitnation and Dropbox, Promising Projects in Pakistan and the Philippines
Ian DeMartino reported Monday, and spoke with, the three members of the Bitnation team who resigned from the project over what they perceived to be mismanagement. In a piece that might contain CoinTelegraph’s best illustration to date, Alyssa Hertig reported on Monday that JPMorgan Chase executives feel they will need to compete with Bitcoin head-on. “Bitcoin developers ‘are going to try and eat our lunch,’ JPMorgan Chase Chairman and Chief Exectutive James Dimon said, at the Institute of International Finance annual meeting, as reported by Institutional Investor. ‘And that’s fine. That’s....
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Why we won't be a part of the Bitnation Crowdsale. This is an article written by the three most senior members of the Bitnation team (save for the CEO). It's written from the perspective of each of us individually. First, who am I? I'm theguy who got married on the block chain last weekend. I'm a true believer in the Bitnation concept. I've owned UnPassport.com and SovereigntyNow.com for years, even though I've never actually developed them. You might call me a zealot. Until recently I've been an advisor to Bitnation and trying to help to launch it, even though I've disagreed with the....
Bitnation was recently in the news for assisting European nations to process the refugees entering Europe and providing support to these refugees as well. We caught up with Ms. Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, the founder and CEO of Bitnation to know more about the organization, projects they are currently involved in and her future plans for Bitnation. NewsBTC: Please tell us a bit more about Bitnation. Susanne: Bitnation is the world's first Virtual Nation providing real governance services. It's powered by the blockchain technology, which enables us to provide the same services traditional....
Bitnation is a Governance 2.0 platform powered by distributed blockchain technology. Bitnation aims to provide the same services provided by traditional governments, but in a geographically unbound, decentralized, and voluntary way. The Bitnation crowdsale of the XBNX altcoin, the traded equity stake in the foundation of Bitnation, started today. At the same time, the three most senior members of the Bitnation team (save for the CEO) left Bitnation with an open resignation letter. CNN reached out to the parties involved to find out what happened and why. Bitnation CEO Susanne Tarkowski....
It's been a rough few days for Dropbox. The popular cloud storage service recently had a bug in its Selective Sync system where many users suffered data loss. And if that weren't bad enough, it looks like nearly 7 million Dropbox accounts may have been compromised. Dropbox is used by bitcoin users around the world, many of whom keep unencrypted wallet.dat backups in their Dropbox. If this sounds like you, now would be a good time to change your Dropbox password, enable two-step verification, and only store an encrypted wallet backup in the cloud. Just yesterday, an unnamed hacker group....
One of the earliest blockchain projects, Bitnation, wants to aggregate all of the values of government into a distributed software platform, from identity and contracts to resolution services. Bitnation seeks to promote the idea that government can be a service, “geographically unbound, decentralized and voluntary.” Bitnation founder Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof aims high when it comes to the project at hand: retooling the nation-state. “People tend to take the nation-state model for granted, like it’s something that’s always been there and always will be there,” Tempelhof said, speaking to....