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Broken Spring
An Inspired Ground Project documentary
Balkan Noire: Nexo’s State Secrets, the Cryptoqueen and the Prosecutor
LONDON, ENGLAND – All things considered, the likelihood that Ruja Ignatova – a.k.a. the Cryptoqueen – is still alive seems remote.
Galactic Cyber Citizens and the Theater of the Oppressed – Hacktivism and Bitcoin’s Political Destiny
FORT MEADE, MARYLAND – Suspicions of an intelligence agency's involvement did not deter people like Lazlo Hanyecz and other early Bitcoin adopters, who despite concluding that Satoshi was "not a real person" after communicating directly with the furtive cryptocurrency genius...
Beelzebub’s Protégé – Deconstructing the Myth of Whitfield Diffie
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY – Bailey Whitfield "Whit" Diffie first heard about the applications of computational work-based cryptographic methods from Alan Tritter at IBM's Thomas J. Watson laboratory, when he met with him and other members of the company's cryptography research team over a weekend in 1974. Diffie was nearing the end of his sojourn across the United States, which semi-official crypto biographer Steven Levy paints as the romantic adventure of an eccentric genius, whose "libertarian ethic" drove him to scour the country in search of the best way to achieve cryptographic privacy.
Crisis Architects, Digital Discipline and the Federal Government’s Wall Street Makeover
WASHINGTON, DC – On August 3, Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and John Boozman (R-AR) submitted the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act to the upper house of Congress calling for a mandatory framework to govern digital assets under the jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), an independent agency of the US government tasked with regulating financial derivatives markets and commodities trading.
Radical Conformity: How Silicon Valley and Bank of America Beta-Tested the Internet on the Counterculture
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – On January 3, 2009, the pseudonymous author of the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto, 'mined' the cryptocurrency's first fifty tokens. The computational milestone was dubbed the "genesis block" and followed by the first Bitcoin transaction about a week later, when ten of the digital coins were sent to American software developer Harold "Hal" Finney, thus proving the network's functionality and establishing the main pillar of foundational Bitcoin lore
Canary in the Rare Earth Mine: The Secret War for Greenland and the Geopolitics of the Data Economy
NARSAQ, GREENLAND – Mariane Paviasen had greeted dozens of geologists, researchers and maybe even a few mining executives when they touched down on the Bell helicopters used by Air Greenland to ferry visitors to this remote part of the world. But in 2014, Paviasen traded in her practiced welcome pitch for a less agreeable disposition, after she decided to oppose a rare earth mining concession granted to an Australian company called Greenland Minerals, Ltd. (GGG), just five miles from her home in Narsaq.