Omid Malekan

Wednesday

Omid Malekan

Trump has brought crony capitalism to crypto

If you’d asked me five years ago which American party would champion crypto, I would have picked the Democrats. Economic inclusion, censorship resistance and sticking it to Jamie Dimon were the kinds of things they care about. Or used to. Crypto has attracted its share of hucksters and psychopaths, but it’s potentially a fundamentally different and a better way of organizing society. Blockchain can provide services similar to those from Big Banks, Big Tech and Big Government, but without the corruption and grift that has compromised them all. Crypto could – and should – be the great Democratic project.

cryptocurrency money crypto

Monday

Omid Malekan

How blockchain can beat state censorship

The concept of blockchain is popularly associated with cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin in particular. But there is another function of the technology which could have huge repercussions for states which attempt to censure the internet – as well as improving inline security and even tackling fake news. It is called ‘Proof of Existence’ (PoE) – the least talked about but perhaps most powerful application of this nascent technology. Earlier this year, a blog post by a Chinese student documenting the intimidation she’d suffered from school officials trying to block her investigation into an incident of sexual assault went viral.