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  Is blockchain finally getting interesting? I guess it always has attracted some attention – if not as an investment at least as a generator of headlines.

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  Law enforcement officers in Japan recently indicted former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès. The leader of the now-defunct Bitcoin repository has been in custody since June as investigators consider what might have happened to more than $183 million in lost Bitcoin funds.

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  The strange case of James Howells's hard drive reached a judge this week, which should be cause for all of us to pause and reflect. In case you're not familiar with the heart-rending tale, Mr. Howells had quite a sum of cryptocurrency back in 2013, with his private keys stored on a hard drive that he removed from his computer and placed in a black bag.

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• The Impact of Crypto Mining

  With climate change wreaking havoc across the planet, we were just beginning to think about how we could use our technology to conserve fuel and reduce our carbon footprint. Then along came crypto mining.

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  Sometimes when I'm watching the Internet news unfolding, I feel like I'm in one of those weird dreams where everything looks the same, but all reason is inverted in some way that only the people in the dream understand. The Internet brings down barriers, including those comforting barriers that provide a cozy space for our moral certainty to flourish. We lapse into approaching problems from the circle of our own experience, sometimes not noticing that we have traveled into very different places. And we mistake our viewpoint for our values, aligning ourselves with others who share a common attitude or rhetorical framework.

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