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China drafts regulation to stamp out blockchain anonymity

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 10:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, blockchain, Hard Fork


After killing all legitimate cryptocurrency businesses in the country, Chinese authorities are now turning their attention to other blockchain service providers. The country’s apex internet regulator, Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), released a draft policy on Friday that will require all companies to collect their users’ real names and national identification card numbers before offering them any blockchain related service. The draft regulations are open to comments from the public until November 2, but CAC hasn’t given any timeline for when they will actually come into force. If the policy is implemented, the companies will be required to store their users’…

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China drafts regulation to stamp out blockchain anonymity

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 10:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, blockchain, Hard Fork


After killing all legitimate cryptocurrency businesses in the country, Chinese authorities are now turning their attention to other blockchain service providers. The country’s apex internet regulator, Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), released a draft policy on Friday that will require all companies to collect their users’ real names and national identification card numbers before offering them any blockchain related service. The draft regulations are open to comments from the public until November 2, but CAC hasn’t given any timeline for when they will actually come into force. If the policy is implemented, the companies will be required to store their users’…

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#WontBeErased is Twitter’s response to Trump’s proposed anti-trans policies

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 9:53 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


Over the weekend, the White House released a memo saying the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to revise the definition of “sex.” As reported by The New York Times, the absolutely bollocks memo details how the Trump administration wants to define sex by the genitalia a person is born with. The new definition would not include gender identity or sexuality, effectively denying transgender people civil rights protections. This would roll back several Obama-era policies concerning gender recognition in education and healthcare. The memo states: “Sex means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by…

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#WontBeErased is Twitter’s response to Trump’s proposed anti-trans policies

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 9:53 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


Over the weekend, the White House released a memo saying the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to revise the definition of “sex.” As reported by The New York Times, the absolutely bollocks memo details how the Trump administration wants to define sex by the genitalia a person is born with. The new definition would not include gender identity or sexuality, effectively denying transgender people civil rights protections. This would roll back several Obama-era policies concerning gender recognition in education and healthcare. The memo states: “Sex means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by…

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This Day in Deals: Why don’t you just go fly a kite?

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 9:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


This Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. The aim? To enrich ourselves financially, and you spiritually. Ever been the first to do anything? Maybe you set a school athletics record? Invented your own drink? Created a game? Well, something I know you weren’t the first to do was parachute from a thousand meters. Why? Because that honor fell to the obviously unhinged Frenchman, André-Jacques Garnerin. Just soak in this dude’s magnificence: By trade, Garnerin was a hot air balloonist (what a career), but…

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