Putin is dealing with the reality of the worldwide financial sanctions crippling his economy. His solution is to create a financial system based on distributed finance or DiFi. An example is cryptocurrency. Using DiFi, Putin thinks he can get around sanctions. There are, of course, a couple of holes in this logic. First, who besides […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is currently an unprecedented level of protests going on in the country. This comes from the draconian Covid-prevention lockdowns, the lack of food and medical care and the apartment building fire that killed a number of people, in part because the fire department could not get close enough to the building to get water […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Great Crypto-Cop Brain Drain As if things weren’t hard enough for the cops, the ones that have been tracking down the bad crypto apples have discovered the grass is greener on the corporate side – a lot greener. And they are fleeing the government side, making things even harder for the remaining govies. Read […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When privacy advocates question the immense sharing of data with others, at least some of them say that they don’t care; they have nothing to hide. Perhaps that is true. I’m kind of on the other side there. I don’t want folks to share my info unless I say so. For the most part, we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You have probably heard folks talking about nation states stealing our intellectual property. High on that list are China, North Korea, Iran and Russia. But there are many others; don’t think that those four are the only ones. Rarely, however, do we get an in depth look at how these operations work. The U.S. federal […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At the beginning of this month Twitter had, reportedly, about 7,500 employees and 5,500 contractors. In an effort to stem the cash flow bleeding, Elon Musk fired about half of the employees and all or most all of the contractors. That means an organization that previously had around 13,000 people was instantly reduced to about […]
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