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http://breakermag.com 03-05-2018 13:54:17
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"Will we one day be making online purchases with a digital version of central bank-issued cash?" bit.ly/2vtYQTw John Paul Koning David Andolfatto 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
"We have shit to do besides waiting for Grammys." We spoke to @TuneYards's Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, who just released their score for 'Sorry to Bother You.' bit.ly/2V7N2pc Nate Brenner
Micropayments, long fancied, never popular, face a big psychological challenge: for most consumers, making choices for small ticket items is too time consuming/boring. One possible answer: automated shopping agents John Paul Koning bit.ly/2DSGLTR
"These agents could learn about us over time, and then take on the mental burden of shopping for small ticket items." John Paul Koning on a potential fix for micropayments: bit.ly/2DSGLTR
Breakermag's roving correspondent Jeff Wilser checks in with Liberland: the campaign for a libertarian free state in the Danube (powered by blockchain, of course): bit.ly/2LuexoN
Lightning to the rescue? Benjamin Powers takes microtipping browser extension bit.ly/2HaiOcH for a spin: bit.ly/2VQfECV
Benedict George visits Rotate, the first London bar to accept bitcoin via the Lightning Network: bit.ly/2VyqwGB Benedict George
And sincere thanks to The Block Trey and BREAKERMAG for putting together the #AtomicSwapNYC event, and letting me and Peter Van Valkenburgh have the discussion we've been wanting to have for a while, in public and on Peter McCormack 🏴☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪's podcast, no less!
[New content] Finbarr Toesland visits Paralelní Polis, a crypto anarchy workspace in Prague bit.ly/2QejuAQ
For his last "Trailbreaker" column, Jeff Wilser visits Switzerland's Crypto Valley - birthplace of Ethereum, and home to 700 blockchain companies (at least some of the time). “Switzerland has decentralization in its DNA,” says one local. bit.ly/2Wf5ufp
For my final dispatch for BREAKERMAG (RIP), I traveled to one of the holiest sites in all of blockchain: Zug, or "Crypto Valley." I'm gonna miss this beat. [Sniff.] breakermag.com/switzerlands-c…