1 week Ago By John Werner, Contributor
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Whatever happened to the cryptocurrency revolution? Well, even though we fell into a crypto winter that we never really came out of, the cryptocurrency craze did spur some thinking about advances in finance. At our recent Imagination in Action event in April, we heard from Anna Kazlauskas of Vana who admits that during MIT University days she was obsessed with central banks, and set up a rig in her dorm room to mine Ethereum. Closeupof Silver Colored Ethereumcoin “It was using technology to shift power to the people,” she said, of the general ethos of using crypto in these ways.
“How do you take decentralization and allow it to create this distributed central bank?” Now, Kazlauskas is part of the effort at Vana, where data democratization is in the mission statement. “Your data is fully yours,” she said, describing a personal server architecture that sounds like it works sort of like an API – to allow users to give permission for their data to flow into other environments. She presented three key criteria for these systems – 1.
self hosted, 2. portable and 3. monetizable.
In a live demo, she showed how she could program a service to remind her to meditate daily, in her own voice. New FBI Warning As Hackers Strike Email Senders Must Do This 1 Thing 2 Obvious Signs Of Workplace Gaslighting From A Psychologist Baby Reindeer Real Martha Reveals Identity In Photo With Piers Morgan This type of technology, she con.
