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Great Bitcoin presentation in 2012 by Mike Hearn. The core messaged has not changed and worth watching in 2020!
POD Research: Interesting Read:

User errors cause or contribute to most computer security failures, yet user interfaces for security still tend to be clumsy, confusing, or near-nonexistent. Is this simply due to a failure to apply standard user interface design techniques to security? We argue that, on the contrary, effective security requires a different usability standard, and that it will not be achieved through the user...

Bitcoin
The World’s First
Person-to-Person
digital currency
Presented by Gavin Andresen to the CIA:

World’s richest 0.1% have boosted their wealth by as much as poorest half. Inequality report also shows UK’s 50,000 richest people have seen their share of the country’s wealth double since 1984. The richest 0.1% of the world’s population have increased their combined wealth by as much as the poorest 50% – or 3.8 billion people – since 1980, according to a report detailing the widening gap...

BITCOIN IS NONE OF THE THINGS IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. The cryptocurrency was supposed to replace the finance industry. Instead, it has replicated it. On Thursday, the price of Bitcoin fluctuated by thousands of dollars in a 24-hour period. The Coinbase app — which lets you buy and sell cryptocurrencies, and is the number two free app in the App Store as of this writing — started freezing and...