Blockchain - Cight – Personal Blog of Sebastien Couture

Thoughts on Blockchain and AI

In preparation for our interview with Ben Groetzel, some thoughts about blockchain and AI come to mind.

Zcash reveals a major counterfeiting vulnerability

Yesterday, it was revealed by the Zerocoin Electric Coin Company (the company behind Zcash) that a major counterfeiting vulnerability in Zcash had been detected and successfully remediated.

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Gaining sovereignty over one's personal data

In recent months, I've taken steps to get off all Facebook products entirely and reduce my dependency on Google services. The goal is to protect and gain sovereignty over my personal and private data. To date, I have achieved the following: Deleted my Facebook and Instagram accountsMoved to Signal for

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What's wrong with the decentralized technology space: reflections on Laura Kalbag's AraCon talk

In her talk “People Might Actually Use This” Laura Kalbag addresses product design and user experience at a high level. It provided a sobering view of everything which is wrong with the decentralized technology space

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Notes from the Evolving Web3 Infrastructure panel at AraCon

TL;DR – Web3 is in building more and needs better hammers. Oh, and we need to agree on how to decide on how to improve the hammers.

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Focal points in Bitcoin vs. Ethereum

In his excellent post, Who Controls Bitcoin Core?, James Lopp describes Bitcoin Core as “a focal point for development of the Bitcoin protocol rather than a point of command and control.”