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Hi y'all! Welcome back after an extra, extra long summer hiatus! I Hope you enjoyed your summer (and fall!). I just got back from a month long ~13,500 km roadtrip across the USA 🇺🇸 and back again with a week long hiatus to help with Scaling Bitcoin in
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From July 8th to 10th, I co-hosted Asia’s first three Blockstack meetups with Blockstack Labs co-founder Ryan Shea in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Taipei. At each meetup, Ryan presented an introduction to Blockstack after which we moved into demos and discussion. Each meetup saw a demographically unique
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The great Bitcoin halvening is upon us in less than 2 short days. To celebrate, Blockstack meetups are coming to Asia! I’m delighted to be organizing three meetups in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Taipei this coming weekend. Ryan Shea, co-founder of Blockstack Labs will be in attendance and
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Hello happening readers! There's been lots of Bitcoin drama the past few weeks. Before we start with the drama, first, some good news. Bitcoin 0.12.1 was released and the Segregated Witness pull request was submitted, holding to the schedule the community negotiated here in Hong Kong
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_Update March 2020: After migrating this blog post, the code on this page no longer works. I'm leaving it here for historical reference. Mealwhile, if you want to display Live Photos on the web, Apple has tools for you. TL;DR: I made Live Photos work on the
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TL;DR: 2015 marked a changing point in China’s relationship with the global Internet. This post takes a look back at 2015 and 16 events in which the effects of China’s Internet control and censorship regime started being felt outside of its borders. I spent much of the
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While cleaning up after the Scaling Bitcoin workshops in Hong Kong on Monday, Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong co-founder Leonhard Weese had the forethought to save the podium’s logo from the trash. His idea was that we could collect signatures of workshop attendees and staff and create a
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A 30 minute introduction to Blockstore and Blockchain ID given at Tuspark’s Causeway Bay location as part of The Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong’s Decentralize All Things event on November 18, 2015. Please note, Blockstore is now called Blockstack Server. Video Watch on Youtube Watch on Youku Slides
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Wow! I am shocked and humbled by the positive reaction to my post last Friday about how Tantan doesn't use encryption. The overwhelming interest on reddit and across Facebook and Twitter along with the interest from the mainstream media showed that many people understand the value of encryption
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Update: Tantan CEO and Co-founder Yu Wang reached out to me via email to acknowledge these issues. Read his email and my response. TL;DR: Chinese Tinder clone Tantan is endangering young women and men by failing to use encryption and exposing private data like that made public in
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The release of iOS 9 saw the launch of Apple’s attempt to revolutionize the news industry, Apple News. While Apple has been pretty clear that News is launching first in the United States, users typically haven’t had any problem using it in other countries as long as your
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Update: iCloud Notes's CloudKit got corrupted after moving a few hundred notes from Evernote - I contacted Apple on September 29th & have been promised that I will hear back from their engineering team within 10 business days. On October 5th, Apple support called me to let me know
