In a time of accelerating censorship aimed in the direction of defending us, is actually personal messaging doable? Why are we utilizing "informati
In a time of accelerating censorship aimed in the direction of defending us, is actually personal messaging doable? Why are we utilizing “information pushed” approaches once we know the info is flawed? Lightning Community messaging protocol Juggernaut’s John Cantrell and HRF’s Alex Gladstein assist us see what the disaster has revealed.
On right this moment’s present we have got a pair of interviews for you. First we communicate with John Cantrell, the creator of Juggernaut, a brand new messaging layer three utility being constructed on high of layer 2 lightning community, which is itself constructed on high of layer one bitcoin. It is plenty of layers, however as a technological idea at the moment in beta it is an interesting challenge, and we discuss it. (Juggernaut on Github)
After the break we’re joined once more by Alex Gladstein of HRF.org for a dialogue on political expediency within the age of pandemic and what disaster has revealed about varied governments, and several types of governments around the globe. Alex is certainly one of my favourite returning company, along with his international human rights targeted work taking him to among the most attention-grabbing and most oppressed locations around the globe
“What’s attention-grabbing is that citizen journalists I do know in Taiwan have pressed the federal government on this and so they’ve gone to parliament and it is all on document, and so they’ve mentioned ‘Have these (…) digital contact tracing or mobile phone surveillance issues been helpful?’ And the governments mentioned “Solely in a single case…. Solely in a single case was this form of mass surveillance strategy been helpful’, in order that they’ve truly been trustworthy with the individuals… However on the finish of the day it does educate us that even probably the most progressive governments are going to be lured by the sirens name of utilizing surveillance to sort out issues.” – Alex Gladstein, Chief Technique Officer HRF.org
This episode of Let’s Discuss Bitcoin is sponsored by eToro.com and options content material from John Cantrell, Alex Gladstein and Adam B. Levine. Todays present options music by Jared Rubens and Gurty Beats with enhancing by Jonas. Album Artwork unique photograph by Goh Rhy Yan on Unsplash