Cryptography as Democratic Weapon Against Demagoguery
America has passed the twilight zone. The nomination of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential primary confirmed the charade of US politics. Elections are sold to the highest bidder. No matter how much popular support a candidate like Bernie Sanders might garner, the corporate masters who sponsor this rigged game in the end take all. Many know that we do not live in a democracy, yet the level of corruption is becoming even more blatantly apparent. Now, the oligarchic class doesn't need to lobby candidates. They can simply run for office, just like Donald Trump. When essential....
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A Texas nonprofit that garnered worldwide media attention for producing the first 3D printed gun -- and raised funds in bitcoins to help pay for the project -- has removed the blueprints for the weapon from its website. Twenty-five-year-old University of Texas law student Cody Wilson runs a company called Defense Distributed, which he calls "Home of the Wiki Weapon Project." Earlier this week, the company posted files with details on how to print a weapon called "the Liberator" at its DEFCAD site. On Thursday, however, those files were "removed from public access at the request of the US....
All of this seems to be another attempt by mainstream media to discredit Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is once again making headline news related to a terror attack. According to German media outlets, the weapon used in the Munich shooting has been purchased from the darknet. As is to be expected, this person allegedly paid in Bitcoin for this item, although that has not been officially confirmed at this stage. Germany has been hit by various terrorist attacks as of late, and the Munich shooting was one of the most horrible events to take place. Law enforcement agencies have been....
If you thought that the University of Nicosia's free bitcoin introductory course was a deal, you might be happy to learn that Stanford University is offering a free course on Cryptography, as pointed out on Reddit. The course, Cryptography I, is taught by computer science professor Dan Boneh - who leads the applied cryptography group within the computer science division at Stanford. According to the course description, the course will cover " the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and how to correctly use them". The course is composed of video lectures, quizzes, and programming....
Stanford University's Computer Science building. It's safe to assume that anyone reading this knows what Bitcoin is. But did you ever stop and wonder how Bitcoin's underlying technology really works? Bitcoin relies on cryptography to control the currency's creation and transfer. It uses a cryptographic hash function called SHA-256, widely considered to be very secure. But just what does that mean, and why is it important? How does cryptography even work? If you've ever asked yourself these questions, Stanford University has you covered. The California-based university, well-known for its....