The Transhumanist Party Supports Bitcoin: Zoltan Istvan Running for President
The Transhumanist candidate for President knows that he isn't going to win in 2016, or at least he's pretty sure. The party was only founded six months ago, so winning the top office in the land isn't necessarily the goal at this point. CCN spoke to Zoltan Istvan, a Californian who once sailed the open seas for seven years, via Skype one night recently. We talked about Bitcoin, politics, and, most interestingly, Transhumanism, or, according to Wikipedia: ... an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by....
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reportedly discussed cryptocurrency and the metaverse at the Justice and Development Party’s central executive board meeting held Tuesday under his chairmanship.
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