Concerning Digital Assets

Tag: privacy

  • Blockchain and Sanity

    Blockchain and Sanity

    First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you.  Nicholas Klein (1914) David Gerard, the author of Attack of the Fifty Foot Blockchain (2017), declares that if “you were silly enough to put personal data into an append-only ledger which is a proof-of-work blockchain — that’d…

  • Protecting data with Policies

    Protecting data with Policies

    Information about your lifestyle and preferences is hard to control across many websites. The way we do this today is functional but cumbersome because the underlying databases are being synchronized. Synchronizing means that data is being copied and keeping the copies up to date is the responsibility of the data vendors. The technical staffs work…