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users should arrange for the use of alternative end-to-end secure channels, such as Signal, and temporarily stop sending and especially reading PGP-encrypted email.

From Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Jonathan Larsen, CIO of Ping An Group and Chairman and CEO of Ping An’s VC arm Global Voyager Fund, explained that massive value-creation opportunities arise when we reduce or eliminate frictional costs (in mortgage creation, for example). He put forward the view that today’s ICOs (“tokens minus the assets”) will be superseded by “tokens with assets” that will help solve the world’s friction problems. He foresees a data economy where the ability to create value out of data use-cases is more important than traditional distribution, brand, physical assets and even capital itself.

From Money20/20 Asia Day Three snapshot | FleishmanHillard in Hong Kong.

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Paris on Saturday officially launched a local currency that can be used alongside the euro in local shops and businesses.

From Paris launches local currency – Economy – RFI.

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Today, shell money has been replaced by the almighty US dollar for day-to-day transactions like grocery shopping. But for more conceptual exchanges, like rights or customs, stones remain a vital currency for Yap’s 11,000 residents.

From BBC – Travel – The tiny island with human-sized money.

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In the future, the most significant factor in the battle between challengers and incumbents will be technology, which is driving a fundamental transformation of financial services.

From Technology not size is key to banking success.

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As with Bitcoin, Zcash has transparent addresses (t-addresses) but gives users the option to hide the details of their transactions using private addresses (z-addresses).

From “The pool’s run dry” – analyzing anonymity in Zcash – Bentham’s Gaze.

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Speaking at the Tomorrow’s Transactions conference in London this week, Kelly Olson, director of the distributed ledger technology group at Intel, discussed ways it is possible to use a “secure enclave”, similar to what Apple uses for its Touch ID, to increase blockchain security.

From Intel Conducting Experiments to Massively Scale Blockchain – CoinDesk.

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Kelly was kind enough to mention Consult Hyperion’s work for Intel on this project. We couldn’t tell you about it before, because it was confidential until very recently, but I hope Kelly won’t mind me saying that Intel’s foresight in starting this project some time ago is impressive.

From There’s more than one way to skin a blockchain | Consult Hyperion.

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Figures from the Electoral Commission show there were just 28 allegations of impersonation in 2017 out of nearly 45 million votes in 2017 – or one case for every 1.6 million votes cast. Only one of these allegations resulted in a conviction.

From Thousands of voters turned away from polling stations in mandatory ID trials – Electoral Reform Society.

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Nigerian-born Omar was previously charged with dangerous driving, using a motor vehicle without third party insurance and driving without a licence.

At Westminster Magistrates’ Court today, another charge of possessing a false passport, driving license and a Public Carriage Office licence to prove his identify in order to get a private hire licence was added to the rap sheet.

From Uber driver ‘who ploughed into 11 people in South Kensington’ in court | Daily Mail Online.

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