Why can’t we have our decentralized, cryptographically secured private cake AND eat it at the same time? —

Imagine this: you are part of a tribunal. Your task is to decide who, among a population of humans who dare to face your tribunal, gets to live in peace and harmony and who doesn’t and is sent back to toil in the squalor of the unworthy masses. These humans are selected by your tribunal according to their performance of a song to appease the scary, all-powerful ruler that governs the entire land. Yet no one, including the tribunal, has ever really seen or made sense of the the nature of your ruler, outside regular visits to the…

Godspeed to you. My work on Time Series Modeling with tsfresh yielded results that , while interesting enough for Engineering applications, would not have made any trader happy. If you are targeting higher timeframes then uncleaned order book data will not be sufficient to achieve good results. A specific feature to aggregate data into higher order dataframes can help, but I have not seen anyone attempt this yet.

Customer-focused B2C platforms are in for a new set of competitors vying for the same ultimate good: user attention. They are about to get competition from the unpopular kids: cryptocurrencies. Platform business models have gone through an incredible growth phase in the first 20 years of the 3rd millennium. They…

The outcry was almost palpable, certainly audible, across the globe’s digital communities. …

Philantropy as a segment of human activity has changed over the last few years but not necessarily on those ends that one would expect. It has become incredibly easy for philantropic organizations to reach people and also very easy to achieve microdonations by tying in giving pledges with the shopping…

Onboarding the 99% into collective thinking — through fests — On the 20th of August 2019 during Berlin Blockchain Week, something was reborn: a notion so powerful that everyone had heard of it — but few understood it and even fewer had been touched by it. …

I have been following the OST team since I met them way before their ICO last year in London at one of WeWork’s inspiring coworking spaces. …

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is getting more and more attention as the grace period nears its end in late May. Protection of personal data is increasingly important in the EU as data can be used to generate statistics, sell products, and manipulate opinions. It was against this background…