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Chinese Big Brother and implications for personal privacy - part II

Last week I wrote about the Chinese social credit system which raises a lot of questions about state surveillance and personal privacy. Despite of the recent at...

Trading Cryptocurrencies: Ten Mistakes You Must Avoid

My eBook is out! This book has happened because of you-those of you who have read, commented, and upvoted my posts, including those ten I wrote this fall that m...

Chinese Big Brother and implications for personal privacy

Personal data, privacy and cybersecurity were talked about extensively in Davos last week. In the current state of the world, governments can use troves of pers...

Decentralization of the social contract

Social contract, in all honesty, sounds like a highly philosophical term with limited practical application and if you google it, you will end up reading about ...

List of Dead Coins - My Memories Part 2.

Part 1 here: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@kingscrown/list-of-dead-coins-my-memories-part-1-bonus-civic-added-as-scam Directory of dead coins at link - http://de...

Impact of technology on professional sports

Does technology give some athletes unfair advantage? I would argue that technology is sort of like doping. It gives those who have access a small advantage and ...

Ask Steemit: What is a lesser known cryptocurrency that you believe will significantly rise in value over the next few weeks and why? - 5 SBD for best comment

Ask Steemit is a series I started last May following a post by @kevinwong where he quoted a suggestion from @jesta for Ask Reddit style posts on Steemit. I ran ...

A modern day anti-technology manifesto

Before I get into writing about things like social contracts, behavioural economics and good old corruption in politics I wanted to share my view on technology....

My story - from tennis to Wall Street, from USSR to the West

To the Steemit Community, I’ve been thinking about the idea of writing and sharing my thoughts with a community (or anyone who’s willing to listen, frankly) for...