Hi Pin (who now goes by Sid - aka Sid Mazumdar),
Nice to talk with you yesterday evening, and greetings from Cuttyhunk Island, MA, 02713 (where I've been visiting I think every summer since 1966!:). Here again is the Cuttyhunk Ferry schedule - https://www.cuttyhunkferryco.com/schedule.html - possibly for next year, 2020 ... :)
And here below is the Tweet from Neha Narula - do you know Neha in the Boston area, by any chance, Marti? - which I mentioned. She's the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. This interview is an interesting update on what they're focusing on currently.
Neha Narula
@neha
Jul 19
This dropped while I was on vacation - I think it's a pretty good summary of how I'm thinking about things at
@mitDCI (summary: ruminating on the ways everything can go wrong in true paranoid fashion)
Thanks for having me on @PeterMcCormack !
- https://twitter.com/neha/status/1152270084477468672
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WBD125 - Bitcoin Security and Ethics with Neha Narula,
@neha
. We discuss:
- How the DCI got started
- Bugs in the Bitcoin protocol
- Proof of Work risks
- Ethical Bitcoin development
- 51% attacks
Listen, love and share...
- https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-security-and-ethics-with-neha-narula -
WBD125 - Bitcoin Security and Ethics with Neha Narula, @neha. We discuss:— Peter McCormack (@PeterMcCormack) July 12, 2019
- How the DCI got started
- Bugs in the Bitcoin protocol
- Proof of Work risks
- Ethical Bitcoin development
- 51% attacks
Listen, love and share...https://t.co/o4CMGCfQoOpic.twitter.com/hKOtOHryXO
- https://twitter.com/PeterMcCormack/status/1149660711984877568
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And re a Digital Single Market idea (and potentially the EuroZone of 19 out of 28 nation states), here's a Re-Tweet from Stanford Law & CS Professor Barbara van Schewick, and expert in Network Neutrality ...
Chris Marsden
@ChrisTMarsden
·
Jul 9
New #netneutrality national annual reports from EU28 + Norway
@1lucabelli @haroldfeld @vanschewick
- https://twitter.com/ChrisTMarsden/status/1148489851169320960
DigitalSingleMarket
@DSMeu
#Openinternet means Internet Service Providers cannot discriminate between internet traffic & end-users have the right to access & distribute content + services. Each year National regulators check the status of this provision 📅 (link: http://bit.ly/2S5o8Sz) bit.ly/2S5o8Sz
- https://twitter.com/DSMeu/status/1148488203604656128
In World University and School's Minutes from July 20, 2019, in Minute 11, I explore the idea further of a SINGLE cryptocurrency, backed by some number of central banks out of ~200 countries, plus with regard to UNIVERSAL Basic Income EXPERIMENTS for 7.5 billion people. This altogether would complicate the idea of a single digital currency re a Digital Single Market (say emerging out of the EuroZone, or India's 36 states - India is a federal union comprising 29 states and 7 union territories, for a total of 36 entities - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India - or post US Dollar, a de facto international currency).
Minutes for Sat July 20, 2019 World University & School / WUaS
Monthly Business Meeting
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/07/minutes-for-wuass-open-monthly-business.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/forest-owlet-minutes-for-wuass-open.html
Talk with you again, soonish, Pin!
Warm regards, Scotty
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Great MIT panel today!
MLTalks—To the Moon to Stay | From the Moon with Love
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/from-the-moon-with-love/
On 7/25 at 2:30pm,
@ExploreSpace_ML
hosts a special #MLTalks event to discuss moonshots, past and future. Featuring
@Joi, @maria_zuber ... !
On 7/25 at 2:30pm, @ExploreSpace_ML hosts a special #MLTalks event to discuss moonshots, past and future. Featuring @Joi, @maria_zuber, @DavaExplorer, @JFKLibrary's Steven Rothstein, @jessykate, @NASA advisor Alex McDonald, and @Astro_Cady! https://t.co/YH8Y58fSp4— MIT Media Lab (@medialab) July 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1153352828221632513
In what ways will we be able to visit #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs
@HarbinBook
in VR like visiting in future the next MIT-inspired trip to moon re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & to add https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ?
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1154382519867006976?s=20
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Alex McDonald and Jessy Kate Schingler (in LinkedIn),
Thanks for your fascinating MIT Media Lab panel just now - https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1153352828221632513. In developing MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World Uni & Sch, my moon shot idea is:
Turn next #Moonshot Voyage into #RealisticVirtualUniverse as #ScientificBreakthrough @ExploreSpace_ML #MLTalks @Joi @maria_zuber @DavaExplorer @JFKLibrary @jessykate @NASA AMcDonald @Astro_Cady https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1154382519867006976 @HarbinBook scientists/public co-build https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1154476967493718017
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1154479698191060992
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1154480349390364673
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1154480138341322752
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1154479872724488192
Turn next #Moonshot Voyage into #RealisticVirtualUniverse as #ScientificBreakthrough@ExploreSpace_ML#MLTalks@Joi@maria_zuber@DavaExplorer@JFKLibrary@jessykate@NASA AMcDonald @Astro_Cadyhttps://t.co/4iygLxgDSv@HarbinBook scientists/public cobuild https://t.co/5p81EFFOza?— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) July 25, 2019
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