Tag: telecommunications

Helium's AT&T Deal: A Blockchain Governance Crossroads?

Helium's AT&T Deal: A Blockchain Governance Crossroads?

Helium network’s partnership with AT&T waves excitement, promising an easy and seamless connectivity while boosting HNT rewards. There’s much good in technological innovation, but there’s an insidious and dangerous precedent lurking in their praises. We’re on a precarious precipice in blockchain governance that risks setting dire precedents. In the quest...

Helium's Wi-Fi: The People-Powered Revolution AT&T Didn't See Coming

Helium's Wi-Fi: The People-Powered Revolution AT&T Didn't See Coming

Put aside all the assumptions you have about broadband availability. Forget the never-ending charge slips, the inconsistent access, and the sense that you’re little more than a feature on a corporate conveyor belt. There’s a revolution brewing, and it’s being powered by the people—one hotspot at a time. It's called...

Decentralization's Mirage: Why Centralized Control Still Reigns Supreme

Decentralization's Mirage: Why Centralized Control Still Reigns Supreme

We're bombarded with buzzwords daily. “Decentralization” is another of these particularly potent and toxic buzzwords, poised to usher in a new utopia without corporate overlords or government meddling. Let's be honest with ourselves: it's largely a mirage. The truth is, centralized control isn’t just alive and well, it’s kicking ass...

Decentralization's Not a Dream, It's Our Future: 7 Ways to Build It

Decentralization's Not a Dream, It's Our Future: 7 Ways to Build It

The future isn't some far-off fantasy. It’s an enormous set of regulations that’s being built right now, brick by brick, line of code by line of code. At the heart of that construction? Decentralization. Ignore the doomsdayers telling you that this will lead to pandemonium and unneeded duplication. That’s when...

Is Bitcoin.com's Web3 Tournament a Gamble or Governance Innovation?

Is Bitcoin.com's Web3 Tournament a Gamble or Governance Innovation?

Bitcoin.com Casino’s latest promotion, the “Bitcoin Arena Cash Tournament,” is certainly a fascinating one. Combining blockchain technology with an open-world, PVP, metaverse environment? Sure, it sounds innovative. But hold on a second—before we get completely carried away by the hoopla, let’s ask some difficult questions. Or is this just another...

Bitcoin $120K Target: Is This Meme Coin Mania Sustainable?

Bitcoin $120K Target: Is This Meme Coin Mania Sustainable?

Bitcoin aiming for $120,000? Fantastic. At the same time, meme coins FLOKI, BONK, and WIF skyrocketing. Here’s where the alarm bells start ringing. The market’s exuberance seems less like a precision investment and more like a tulip mania of the digital age. Are we really interested in building the future...

BankSocial's XRP Integration A Trojan Horse Or A True DeFi Bridge?

BankSocial's XRP Integration A Trojan Horse Or A True DeFi Bridge?

BankSocial’s expansion into XRP has everyone talking. It offers the potential to build a better bridge between the vibrant, innovative world of DeFi and the well-adjudicated (if inefficient) world of credit unions. Currently, they’re starting to seed the picture of the great accessibility, the great mainstream adoption and the competitive...

XRP For The People BankSocial Democratizes Crypto For Credit Union Members

XRP For The People BankSocial Democratizes Crypto For Credit Union Members

Imagine that picture, but grandma, bless her soul, can’t buy XRP without a bunch of trouble. Just like she orders her morning coffee – SHE DOES IT HER WAY! That’s the power BankSocial is making by making XRP an instant transfer option embedded in the interfaces of consumer credit unions....