Date: March 10, 2020

What are a Data Scientist, a Hacker and a Lawyer talking about?

• Ashish Deep Singh (aka Santa) – the Hacker shares his experience of hacking a biometric authentication (fingerprint sensors).
• Jaspalsinh Jadeja – the Lawyer indicates a potential nation-wide political conspiracy regarding legality of cryptocurrencies.

They discuss cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes, ICO scams and technological divide in infrastructure.

They shed light on scandals by companies like Pornhub secretly mining coins from in your browsers, and fairness for poor people who cannot afford to mine.

They even ideated ‘Mining as vote’ for proposals of expenditure of – tx won’t happen if we don’t agree.

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Resources:

ColdFusionTV video on Onecoin: ‘Fake Bitcoin’ – How this Woman Scammed the World, then Vanished
Browser extensions to block JavaScript mining: minerBlock (open source)

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Opera