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George Feil


Independent software architect and engineer, recent expat from San Francisco Bay Area, now living in Vancouver, Canada

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Anonymity is great. I think privacy should be at the forefront of todayâs technological developments and discussions. But if companies and governments are operating on the blockchain, digitizing their assets, and issuing smart contracts, all under the watchful eye of the government, they canât have anonymity. For a platform to be regulatory compliant, digital identity â a verifiable identity in digital form â is a necessary evil.

From Did Anyone In Washington Ask You If You Wanted A New Cold War? by Caitlin Johnstone

419 votes in the House and 98 in the Senate. Think about what could be done with numbers like that if you had a government aimed at helping you instead of propping up the international hegemonic dynasties of a few extremely powerful plutocrats. If those numbers were pointed at getting rid of corruption in government instead of facilitating it. If they were geared toward prying the fingers of the military-industrial complex off the steering wheel of America instead of helping it plunge our species into peril. These Washington lawmakers could do so much to help their constituents, but instead theyâre degradiâ¦

Ninety-eight to two in the Senate. The vote was 51â49 on whether to keep Obamacare. A knock-down, drag-out, skin-of-the-teeth barn burner of a fight over whether to keep the ACA or replace it with something that will kill even more Americans than Obamacare does, but escalating tensions with the only nation that has a reasonable shot at annihilating the United States in a matter of minutes gets passed with near unanimity. Even Bernie Sanders said he only voted against it because of the Iran provisions, not because a newâ¦

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