Gawker bashes Disney and Bitcoin
The popular website Gawker has an article, published yesterday, about the Disney World Coins in the Kingdom Bitcoin Conference on October 4 and 5. Not very timely, but the article titled "Magical Thinking: Bitcoin Gathers at Disney" seems to follow a political agenda, so I guess timeliness isn't important. Also read: Bitcoin Wedding: Marriage on the Blockchain. The author, Sam Biddle, is no friend of Disney: "[T]here was the emptiness of this [aging] vision of the future: the sprawl of dangerous intersections, poorly laid walkways, and artificial lakes. The hotel did not offer, and never....
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Disney has made open source its Dragonchain blockchain. Dragonchain is being touted as a public/private blockchain by the corporation famous for animated cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Pluto. Disney and Blockchain may sound like an odd mix but as a company Disney has always been at the forefront of utilising technology. At the company’s Disney World resorts, they already use MagicBands that help customers enter theme parks, unlock hotel doors and purchase consumable items and merchandise. In a world where the newer generation is increasingly transfixed by....