Peace & Stability Through The Blockchain: Information Sharing
This is part 5 of CCN’s series, “Peace & Stability Through The Blockchain.” In part 5, we look at how information might be shared on a blockchain system. The WikiLeaks example demonstrates the issues facing sources for information. When major payment providers blocked WikiLeaks’ accounts, the site adopted Bitcoin. Could an information provider such as a news journal, website, newsletter or whistleblowing be distributed? In such an example, suppose that people are incentivized to subscribe and host a node for the information source – say, The New York Times. It’s unclear how to....
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In the first part of this series, we examined the ways in which changing political postures of global citizens, and the history of IBM, helps paint a picture of the world in which blockchain operates. As we wrote: The legacy corporations now working in the blockchain space – keystone financial institutions and technology multinationals – have a long history of promoting peace and stability on Earth. IBM, which is “all in on the blockchain”, outlines the sort of moral and business fortitude needed to define the evolution of distributed technology. As well: There are still various other....
This is part 4 of CCN’s “Peace & Stability Through The Blockchain” Series. In this edition, we explore the way in which policing can be changed via public ledger technology. Similar to how blockchain-forward technologies streamline the border, the same could be done on a blockchain during a routine traffic stop or encounter of an officer and a civilian. City, county, state and federal governments have yet to fully synthesize their data on people. Oftentimes in a traffic stop officers do not know with whom they’re dealing. That poses a threat to officer safety. In order to deal with this....
This is part 3 of CCN’s “Peace & Stability Through the Blockchain” Series. So far, we’ve gone over the precedent some of the multinational corporations exploring blockchain technology have set historically about promoting peace through their work. In part 2, we look at the ways in which blockchain technology can make payments easier and finance transparent. In part 3, we look at how the public ledger might be applied to government. One company, NevTrace, believes that the movement of refugees away from their war-torn lands can be managed more efficiently by a blockchain system than....
As Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in The New York Times, an ongoing global political awakening means more politically enlightened people, who hold a better understanding of colonialism and empire, and share a deep dissatisfaction with the status quo. As he wrote: For the first time in history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. Global activism is generating a surge in the quest for cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world scarred by memories of colonial or imperial domination. In the US, this is expressed via the....
The recent developments in the United States Senate seem to have created an opportunity for bitcoin to become the currency of the future. Earlier this week, the senate ended up passing the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act better known in its abbreviated form - CISA. The act will now facilitate information sharing between companies and the US government. The main purpose of CISA is to make it easier for governments to collect personal information of internet users easily and more openly from companies in possession of it. Previously, sharing personal information without consent or....