Graham Smith

Japan's new prime minister (PM) Shigeru Ishiba has instructed the government's Minister for Digital Transformation (DX), Masaaki Taira, to accelerate work toward an “active cyber defense” bill.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developers and community members have been actively voicing their support for two Cash Improvement Proposals (CHIPs) ahead of a November 15 lock-in deadline.

In this post: Japanese police have reportedly arrested local users of overseas casinos for the first time using a tracking tool for virtual assets.

In this post: “Moria” (MUSD) has launched on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain as a decentralized, native-backed, layer 1 (L1) stablecoin protocol experiment.

Polymarket and Kalshi bettors can now wager money on a new trending topic: whether President-elect Donald Trump will pardon Roger Ver, also known

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In this post: Japan's Nikkei news outlet has released a comprehensive report on why the nation lags behind the US and UK in terms of cyber security and information control.

Justice-oriented climate activism is proliferating. Many scholars aspire to deliver research that supports activism. However, measures of impact for research evaluation and funding purposes place little weight on the use of research by activists. Here we consider how academics and academia might effectively support and enable climate activism. We report outcomes from a series of online deliberative workshops involving both activists and academics from several European countries. The workshops were facilitated to create space for discussion, sharing of experiences and the development of proposals for the future. The outcomes take the form of a set of principles (a “minifesta”) for academic-activist engagement generated by the group. In discussing the process and outputs, we argue that a focus on inclusion can support politically transformative change of the scale and urgency required. We suggest that this also demands a shift in attitudes toward the role of activism and activists in collaborative processes. We further discuss the inevitable incompleteness of this process, arguing that incompleteness is, itself, a feature of inclusive engagement. We conclude that scholars working on climate issues in any discipline could benefit from increasing mutually supportive collaboration with activists; and that such collaboration and inclusion could help liberate democracy from authoritarian tendencies and market influences. Collaborative engagements generate legitimate, rich, and impactful outcomes even with the limitations posed by COVID19. We, therefore, commend both the model of engagement and the principles it generated for our colleagues and peers.

In this post: Bitcoin Cash community member and “freedom maximalist” minisatoshi has released a unique resource tracing the evolution of Bitcoin as peer-to-peer cash from 2009 to the present.