The indictment filed on June 13, 2018 is perhaps the most popular and realistic argument against cryptocurrency, that it enables anonymous transactions globally and at scale, no exception made for Russian intelligence or ISIS. So the news that a prominent and controversial technology was used to fund state-sponsored cyber-attacks will not be passed by its critics. In the released indictment, prosecutors assert that the 12 named intelligence officers hacked computer networks and email accounts owned…

About a year ago, I did some research on a new Technology the Organization I work for wanted to adopt. I spent weeks on this research and it never saw the light of day. Why? Because the Technology was ‘Open Source’. I remember one of the guys asking…open as in free? Open as in not closed? Open as in accessible by anyone? (okay, I just paraphrased the questions), and I remember almost screaming in my…