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Blockchain is Going Mainstream from the Laboratory: EU Official

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Blockchain is Going Mainstream from the Laboratory: EU Official

A European Commission vice-president has called on EU nations to commit to blockchain technology which he says is moving out of the lab and going mainstream. In a speech centered on digitization, a vice president of the European Commission – the executive arm of the European Union – pinpointed blockchain technology as an area that … Continued

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Yubico ‘Security Key’ Launches With Support For New FIDO2 Candidate Protocol

The FIDO Alliance and the W3C have been working together on the FIDO2 project, which promises to allow users to authenticate their identities to websites from their desktops or mobile devices without using a password. The two groups announced that FIDO2 is now in the the Candidate Recommendation stage for W3C's Web Authentication protocol, which is the precursor stage before the final approval.

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#198 Nick Morgan: The DAO, the SEC and the ICO Boom

Nick Morgan, a former attorney at the SEC, joined us to discuss their recent report on the DAO and what it means for the ICO boom.

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • The history and mandate of the SEC
  • Nick’s years as a trial attorney at the SEC
  • How the Howey Test is used to determine if something is a security
  • The application of the Howey Test to the DAO case
  • The weaknesses in their argument that token holders relied on the effort of others
  • Why the SEC did not prosecute the Slock.it founders
  • Why the SEC will likely focus on token sales involving fraud
  • How the SEC’s limited resources will make it hard for it to impact the ICO boom
  • The implications of the SEC report for cryptocurrency exchanges

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