Cryptocurrency is picking up as an instrument for tyranny
From ubiquitous surveillance to negative interest rates, crypto is giving dictators and global corporate leaders new ways to intimidate, oppress and subjugate humanity. Proponents paint Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies as antidotes to totalitarian governments and central banks. Simultaneously, international corporations and startups alike have designed blockchain platforms and products that could be used on behalf of totalitarian governments and central banks. Microsoft body activity dataOne example is Microsoft, which applied for a patent for a cryptocurrency system using body....
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The academic community must make the choice of honest intellectual consideration of Bitcoin or continued deliberate ignorance.
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A whole lot of Bitcoin holders have made bank on the cryptocurrency's recent meteoric rise. But is it possible to make money from a falling Bitcoin price? Well, it is now! But let's start at the beginning, by defining terms. In trading, a bet that price will fall is called a "short." This is the opposite of a "long," which is buying something in the expectation of a future price rise. Probably a lot of people reading this are long cryptocurrency, or at least thinking of going long. The old joke for people who've bet the farm on a long position is that they're "long like John" (Holmes, the....