Akon Joins Presidential Campaign of Bitcoin Entrepreneur Brock Pierce as Chief Strategist

Akon has joined bitcoin entrepreneur Brock Pierce’s 2020 campaign to become the president of the United States. Akon will serve as the chief strategist for the Pierce campaign while building his “futuristic” Akon City in Senegal, Africa, that will be run on the akoin cryptocurrency. Akon: The Chief Strategist for Brock Pierce’s 2020 Presidential Campaign … Read more

The Daily: Shapeshift Shuts Down Prism, Jamie Dimon Wants to Be President

In today’s edition of The Daily we cover stories about Shapeshift shutting down its decentralized portfolio platform Prism, the bitcoin-hating CEO of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, thinking he can be elected US President, an exchange expanding to 20 more states, and further censorship of bitcoin-related accounts on Chinese social media. Also Read: 66% of Cryptocurrency … Read more

PR: Verifier – the Idea of Using Blockchain to Verify Elections Is Not New

The validity of presidential elections has been in doubt in numerous cases. What’s more, one of the most high-profile cases – the US presidential election – has not yet fully played itself out. Perhaps this is why the election observer organization National Public Monitoring (NOM) has decided to store data on 100 thousand independent observers … Read more