{"id":558,"date":"2018-02-23T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T12:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=558"},"modified":"2018-02-23T12:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T12:26:02","slug":"blockchain-could-reshape-the-world-and-the-far-right-is-one-step-ahead-josh-hall-opinion-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain could reshape the world \u2013 and the far right is one step ahead | Josh Hall | Opinion | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Unchain, a large bitcoin and blockchain convention based in Hamburg, seems to have a potential answer. Along with speakers from blockchain startups, cryptocurrency exchanges and a company that purports to offer \u201cprivately managed cities as a business\u201d, the conference programme also features Alice Weidel, listed on the site as an \u201ceconomist and bitcoin entrepreneur\u201d.In fact, Weidel is the co-leader of Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland, which recently became the third largest party in Germany\u2019s Bundestag. Weidel\u2019s election campaign in 2017 was the party\u2019s breakthrough moment, and what many have seen as a watershed in German politics \u2013 the return of far-right, populist ethno-nationalism to the federal parliament.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/feb\/23\/blockchain-reshape-world-far-right-ahead-crypto-technology\">Blockchain could reshape the world \u2013 and the far right is one step ahead | Josh Hall | Opinion | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unchain, a large bitcoin and blockchain convention based in Hamburg, seems to have a potential answer. Along with speakers from blockchain startups, cryptocurrency exchanges and a company that purports to offer \u201cprivately managed cities as a business\u201d, the conference programme also features Alice Weidel, listed on the site as an \u201ceconomist and bitcoin entrepreneur\u201d.In fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,20,44,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}