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Stingray sniffers, Reality Winner(s) and doughnut drones + this day in history w/the first drive-in and our song of the day by Brazilian Girls on your Morning Monarchy for June 6, 2017.

(ANTIMEDIA) The price of bitcoin just surpassed $1,800, its second all-time high this week. As governments worldwide eye the blockchain technology and ready new cryptocurrency rules, there is no sign bitcoin’s astronomical rise in value, up 81 percent this year, is over.

When UC Berkley's 20,000 free world-class lectures were threatened with elimination at the hands of the state, an enterprising blockchain-based company, LBRY, stepped in and saved the day.

We have separate credentials for nearly every service we interact with but often reuse the same simple passwords, leaving ourselves vulnerable. Our credentials and sensitive data are then stored in databases with thousands or millions of other users, creating attractive targets for hacking and theft. There are better paths to follow.

The past year, there have been very mixed signals about Bitcoin and virtual currencies from the EU. They range from the opinion that it is too early to regulate, as we cannot tell how they will develop – to demands for mandatory registration of all players and all transactions.
This piece might give you a picture of the current state of the debate: EU Parliament states Virtual Currencies cannot be anonymous »

Several central banks, including the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China, the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve, are exploring the concept of issuing their own digital currencies, using the blockchain technology developed for Bitcoin. Skeptical commentators suspect that their primary goal is to eliminate cash, setting us up for negative interest […]

(ANTIMEDIA) Government campaigns of intimidation — like the wars on drugs, terror, and poverty — have been used to extort the public for decades. Despite the previous failures of institutional “wars,” a new war on cash is being waged that threatens freedom in a more subversive way than ever before.

GPS blackouts, warrantless wiretaps and building a new web + this day in history w/The Mindbender accident and our song of the day by The Invisible on your Morning Monarchy for June 14, 2016.

Artificially intelligent movies, profits of rage and hacking Lana + this day in history w/Apple II and our song of the day by Wye Oak on your Morning Monarchy for June 10, 2016.

(ANTIMEDIA) As Facebook and other digital social platforms face repeated accusations of censorship, a new blockchain-based social networking platform is emerging — with the express purpose of combating censorship.