Category Archives: Uncategorized

xxx Financial hegemony has been indulged for a long time. Groups with first-mover advantage have been enjoying the monopoly benefits brought by financial hegemony. The strong are strong and strong; while more regions and individuals often pay a lot of hard work, but they are just making wedding dresses for others. The weak are weak.Continue reading “Coin Launches "Venus Plan" – Binance”

xxx “In a typical election setting with secret ballots, we need: enforced secrecy: a way for each voter to cast a ballot secretly and no way to prove how they voted (lest they be unduly influenced) individual verifiability: a way for each voter to gain confidence that their own vote was correctly recorded and counted. globalContinue reading “Blockchain and Voting – Benlog”

xxx “According to Nomura each new Apple Card user is costing Goldman around $350, which they estimate will take four years for the bank to recuperate those costs and start becoming profitable.” From “Analysts report Goldman Sachs is paying around $350 for every Apple Card member | iMore”. xxx

xxx “Specifically, we highlight the potential for private digital currencies to improve welfare within an emerging market with a selfish government. In that setting, we demonstrate that a private digital currency not only improves citizen welfare but also encourages local investment and enhances government welfare.” From “How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy? byContinue reading “How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy? by Max Raskin, Fahad Saleh, David Yermack :: SSRN”

xxx “Most people also still need to bring their IDs in the wallets when driving (or going out). Government-issued identification will probably be the most difficult thing in the wallet to digitize” From “Apple is going to be the company that kills the wallet — Quartz”. xxx

xxx “In June the Financial Action Task Force (FATF; pronounced ‘fat F’) published a much anticipated, technically nonbinding guidance detailing expectations of how its 37 member jurisdictions should regulate their respective ‘virtual asset’ marketplaces. Here’s the contentious part: whenever a user of one exchange sends cryptocurrency worth more than 1,000 dollars or euros to aContinue reading “New Guidelines Significantly Impacting Cryptocurrecy Exchanges | PaymentsJournal”

Perhaps we should be more optimistic though, as a raise a more knowing, media-savvy generation. According Harper’s Index for April 2019, Americans over 65 are seven times more likely to share stories from fake news sites than those aged between 18 and 29.

Biometrics are Best Why am I so keen on biometrics for SSCA? Well, let me take you back to what I wrote about the launch of the iPhone 5 with TouchID (which was, of course, always a misleading label: it should be called TouchAuthenticate, but more on this later). Here’s an amalgam of the conversations IContinue reading “Biometrics work and don’t work”

xxx The use of unique mobile identifier services will put more than $7 billion into the pockets of mobile operators in 2024, according to a new estimate from Juniper Research. From Mobile ID Services Expected To Enrich Mobile Operators 08/13/2019. xxx

xxx The most valuable part of the Verify system, as far as the remaining IDPs are concerned, is the Document Checking Service (DCS), a tool that allows them to check a user’s passport or driving licence against data held by HM Passport Office (HMPO) and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). From Why Gov.ukContinue reading “Why Gov.uk Verify faces a critical few months – again – Computer Weekly Editor's Blog”