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Tainted money

Tainted money

What if we started tracing how money moves around in our economy, in an open and transparent way? Hypothetically, Practically (see below(!)), I can start voluntarily taint money that goes through me. Publicize how much money I got from who, and to who do I give it. An extreme way of “voting” with every economic transaction I make. What if organizations started to do this in a standardized way? Could this make some money worth more than other money? Could…

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A shift to control your own data

A shift to control your own data

Some incidents that happened lately led us to think quite much about the control of our data: In the past couple of months, Facebook had decided to disable the accounts of a couple of friends of ours. In 1999, some very important files of mine were hosted on a “Free 50MB storage” service. A year later I found out that my files were taken hostage, and in order to bail them out of that company I had to pay $10….

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