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there is validity in this critique. *voice first* tech is about language as transaction. human language is much more than transactional. it is imperative we think thru the unintended consequences. @BrianRoemmele @BrettKing any thoughts?
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— pascalb❄️uvier ≠ (@pascalbouvier) February 24, 2018

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Gartner reports first ever global decline in smartphone sales https://t.co/e7ow2FDW8m

— Peter van Teeseling (@pvantees) February 24, 2018

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The best graph you are likely to see this week. pic.twitter.com/4YMUMRmOFP

— Academia Obscura (@AcademiaObscura) February 23, 2018

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It's been a good run, humanity. The Boston Dynamics' robot that haunted you last week is back, this time fighting off an armed human https://t.co/u0u3xgkr5T pic.twitter.com/Q0TkhGy16k

— WIRED (@WIRED) February 23, 2018

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Feds have spent 13 years failing to verify whether passport data is legit https://t.co/8ewR2zXpbb by @cfarivar

— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) February 23, 2018

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Interesting estimate of how much the biggest Bitcoin mining company, Bitmain, made last year in profits — $4 billion. For comparison sake, that is the same that Goldman Sachs brought in. https://t.co/voEizsUDiW

— Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) February 23, 2018

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1/ Today's John Deere tractors simply don't work and can't be fixed without access to proprietary software maintained by the company. Their value, including their resale value, is highly dependent on the continued efforts of the manufacturer to keep that software up to date. pic.twitter.com/Nnom0wcNFd

— Peter Van Valkenburgh (@valkenburgh) February 23, 2018

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Tx fees are effectively a bid for limited space in a block. They make spam expensive. They compliment the block reward subsidy. Fees are an essential part of the economic incentives that sustain Bitcoin.

— Wayne Vaughan (@WayneVaughan) February 23, 2018

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Excellent @Blockstream work. Cypherpunks write code. How awesome is that?

"Five hundred 8-fold aggregates (so 4000 ranges total) can be validated in 305 ms, or 76 microseconds per range, or a 75x improvement over the old rangeproofs." @pwuille @adam3ushttps://t.co/ftB6iv049V pic.twitter.com/Z4rrXz95RQ

— Trace Mayer (@TraceMayer) February 22, 2018

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Though Bulletproof’s offer smaller size & 75x speed improvements over our previous Confidential Transaction range proofs, what excites me is they also have the power to prove arbitrary statements like zk-snarks & starks do, but incredibly more efficiently. https://t.co/Daw9pVaOMg

— Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA) February 22, 2018

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May we present, our long awaited, Technical Whitepaper: https://t.co/uEWlBlJ9hJ

— Ocean Protocol (@oceanprotocol) February 20, 2018

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Bulletproofs | Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More without trusted setup https://t.co/FhzO59gkOC

— Bart Suichies (@bsuichies) February 21, 2018

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Woah. Unicode 'n' characters in a domain name as a super dangerous spoofed cryptocurrency exchange. Even has an SSL cert. pic.twitter.com/xwKZZBIaDb

— Matt Johansen (@mattjay) February 19, 2018

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"If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said a decentralized network of information nodes that are linked using hypertext" https://t.co/ZUirNtsfnZ

— Bart Suichies (@bsuichies) February 19, 2018

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1994: “the internet means there’ll be no more governments!”
2018: “blockchain means there’ll be no more governments!”
Both nonsense, yes. But the internet still turned out to be pretty important, and it was partly because of the things that prompted people to talk like that.

— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) February 19, 2018

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“An unwelcome consequence of living in a world where everything is “easy” is that the only skill that matters is the ability to multitask. At the extreme, we don’t actually do anything; we only arrange what will be done, which is a flimsy basis for a life” https://t.co/HuhrmmDD8Z

— Bart Suichies (@bsuichies) February 19, 2018

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Five Characteristics of a Critical Thinker https://t.co/6FNcRqVJBV

— Valeria Maltoni (@ConversationAge) February 19, 2018

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“The state relies on its corporate partners to punish behavior it regards as problematic. Private, commercial transactions—renting a car, reserving a hotel room, buying a plane ticket—become venues for state-directed punishment for nonconformity.” https://t.co/VNrjvmRxVA

— Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA) February 18, 2018

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Probably 15 ico's… 😉

— Bart Suichies (@bsuichies) February 17, 2018

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Ever wonder what happens when you yank the pull cord on an aircraft emergency slide?

Wonder no more. pic.twitter.com/872diWGEGQ

— AeroDork (@AeroDork) February 15, 2018

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Notable events leading up to #bitcoin. pic.twitter.com/jt39FHx9R1

— Bitcoin&Markets (@btcmrkts) February 15, 2018

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We just passed 700 lightning nodes on mainnet serving 1,700 open channels. 👏 Instant, free and trust-less transactions are here and it is just the beginning. The resemblance this has with our universe is mind-blowing . 🤯👇⚡️🚀🌌 #LightningNetwork #bitcoin #segwit pic.twitter.com/AM8z7geyNR

— Armin van Bitcoin ⚡ (@ArminVanBitcoin) February 14, 2018

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Toezichthouder: AIVD en MIVD kopen bulkbestanden op dark web met persoonsgegevens van 100 miljoen mensen. ‘Ernstige privacy-inmenging’ pic.twitter.com/JXLhPpJSDl

— Huib Modderkolk (@huibmodderkolk) February 14, 2018

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Kuala Lumpur's Berjaya Timesquare massive screen got hacked. Perfect meme platform. pic.twitter.com/wrX2I47TL4

— Ashraf Aldakhrouj (@paklonginvul) February 8, 2018

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Massive multi-sig schemes are interesting for smart contracts (think asset issuance, representative ownership) and improved privacy. https://t.co/STp6spCWqb

— Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester) February 14, 2018

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