Any group of people that is oppressed needs very specific resources to overcome that oppression. Chief of those is education; education of self, education of the oppressor, and education of resource acquisition and management. For minority communities to be able to survive and compete in the drastically-changing economic markets, they need to be educated on the financial tools that are used to create wealth. In school, we weren't taught about life insurance, gold & silver as investment tools, IRAs, 401Ks, REITs, real estate, stocks & bonds, nor any other useful tool of economic inclusion. There is an awakening happening amongst my peers that is causing us to question our traditional methods of education.

Bitcoin as a monetary application was specifically created as a revolutionary tool to undermine and dismantle the banking industry. To ignore this fact is a mistake. Blockchain te...more

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https://cointelegraph.com/news/fed-must-launch-fednow-ahead-of-facebooks-libra-says-govt-official

Central banking hasn't worked for the larger public since it's inception. it has always been used as a tool to generate wealth for the wealthy. And they very understandably see no reason to change things. Hence, Dear Nakamoto devised a solution. A crypto by any other name is not necessarily a crypto in the purest sense. the entire idea of an immutable distributed ledger becomes compromised when governed by a central power. My last post, "Be Wary of Centralized Blockchains" speaks on this same issue. Enjoy the article, then keep an eye on the maneuvers of governments working in blockchain to recreate a failed and dying system of economic control. Where are our champions?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/former-pboc-governor-libra-would-be-trusted-if-run-by-imf 

This former Chinese governor doesn't trust Libra and thinks it should be run by the IMF. I trust the IMF less.

The link above describes what we all knew was coming; governments and banks creating their own centralized cryptocurrencies. Simply going by the White Paper of Satoshi Nakamoto, we know that this technology was created to eliminate centralized banking systems. These government-owned and distributed blockchains, the technology won't be for fair and safe distribution of wealth. it will be for surveillance. recently at the #SmartCityExpo here in Atlanta, there were several companies showcasing their new technologies and talking about how innovative and groundbreaking they were. Although some of the stuff was cool, there was one recurring and nefarious theme throughout almost all of them; ...more

I was privileged to have been invited to the National Power Training Institute in Faridabad, near New Delhi, to conduct a session on Blockchain Technology. I took a session on "Integration of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain in Business and Life". 

It was a small but engaging bunch of participants who have been working in the power sector for quite some time and were oblivious to the change in the technology paradigms of the world. Their interest piqued when I started to speak about cryptocurrencies, which shows that there is interest in the Indian market in this field, but little opportunities to understand it better. They were also interested to know about the various applications of cryptocurrencies using blockchain tech, in the various businesses including the power sector. I helped them take a peek into how blockchain can help in the Loyalty programs, Supply Chain, and Power secto...more

I'll be teaching a Cryptocurrency Wallets & Exchanges Workshop at Atlanta Tech Park on Sat, Aug 24 at 1:00 PM ET.

This is geared toward those who want to secure digital assets in their own wallets (software or hardware) and use exchanges based in or friendly to the United States.

Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cryptocurrency-wallets-exchanges-workshop-tickets-65814816889

Limited seating and early bird pricing available through Aug. 15.

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I recently took a trip out to Oakland and got to see some pretty amazing landmarks of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. One of them is the Alameda County Court building where the #FreeHuey movement reached a fever pitch and where Huey ultimately was received by the people after his 1970 murder trial acquittal. Now, almost 50 years later, we're no closer to realizing a truly unbiased justice system that fairly prosecutes the people of this country. With the industry-disrupting power of blockchain, i think we have the tools to begin reconstructing a system that has unjustly destroyed so many lives. There are many organizations involved with prison-reform, school-to-prison pipeline work, and other areas. In a country that boasts the largest prison population in the world, how can we use blockchain to help address the many blaring issues and disparities we encounter with the American...more

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As adoption of blockchain grows, an inevitable conversation about race and the distribution of wealth in this country from its inception until now, will have to be had. For now, I'll just share this nicely authored article to spark some thoughts and dialogue amongst yourselves and others..

Bitcoin, Blockchain, & the Black Community

enjoy!

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