Frederick Reese
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Is ICO Speculation Healthy?
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) bring entrepreneurs access to fast cash for their projects, but some have aired concerns over the risks for investors. → Read More
Blockchain Land Registry: A Solution Seeking a Problem?
Is land titling a ready-made blockchain use case? CoinDesk profiles the pros and cons in discussion with industry experts. → Read More
Why Bitcoin Remittance Companies Are Still Shrugging Off Swift
Financial messaging giant Swift may have introduced new payments tech, but bitcoin startups still feel confident about their role in the industry. → Read More
Not Just Bitcoin: The Top 7 Cryptocurrencies All Gained in 2016
CoinDesk contributor Frederick Reese gives an overview of trends in the digital currency and digital asset markets during 2016. → Read More
America Needs A Way To Police The Police
Communities want to be safe, and police want to do what’s asked of them by both the public and City Hall without fear of recrimination. To strike this balance, communities, law enforcement and politicians are going to need work together. → Read More
Sacrifices In Journalism And Whistleblowing: A Tribute to Truth-Tellers
Whistleblowing was the buzzword of 2013 and 2014. Snowden and Assange are the big names splashed around headlines, but they’re not the only ones going to great lengths to preserve the Fourth Estate and, in doing so, saving democracy. → Read More
Auto Mafia: State Bans On Tesla Sales Expose Monopolistic Nature Of Franchise Laws
Once seen as the wheels of choice for the environmentally conscious or the socially pretentious, Tesla Motors is shifting in major ways the conversation about electric cars. So what’s stopping sales from keeping pace with gas-guzzlers and other traditional autos? → Read More
How Anonymous Revolutionized Revolt
“There’s a trade-off in place here. There’s a privacy interest involved with accessing private computer systems, but there is also an interest in ensuring the public good,” one Internet researcher tells MintPress, explaining the ambiguities and lack of boundaries in “hacktivism.” → Read More
America Needs Another Civil Rights Movement
“This nation is steeped in racial violence and racial prejudice, and anyone who thinks differently is living in a dream world,” a trial attorney and author tells MintPress, stressing the need to address the underlying issues driving police violence. → Read More
The Bitcoin Hype Has Been Spent, So What’s Next?
It’s been a rough year for the bitcoin. Going forward, it may turn out that the cryptocurrency’s greatest value lies in what it reveals about the flaws in the cryptocurrency model. Addressing these flaws could ultimately revolutionize the ways we think about and handle data. → Read More
Slavery Is Alive And Well In America, Fueled By The Need For Cheap Labor
Though the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery, forced labor persists in the U.S. through federal guest worker programs, a focus solely on sex trafficking, and an economy that puts cost effectiveness ahead of human rights. → Read More
The Bitcoin Hype Has Been Spent, So What’s Next?
It may be the case that the cryptocurrency is most valuable as a development platform for other products -- products that could ultimately revolutionize the ways we think about and handle data. → Read More
GOP Needs To Clear Net Neutrality, Immigration Reform Hurdles On The Way To 2016
The Republicans’ midterm success may be more reflective of Democrats not getting out to vote than representative of a strong GOP base that’s able to hold onto power past 2016. → Read More
2014 Elections Paint Gruesome Future For Republican Party
With Republicans likely to take the Senate on the back of the “six-year itch,” the lead-up to 2016 is going to reveal whether the GOP can overcome party in-fighting and come up with a unified front to address the nation’s dilemmas. → Read More
The Fate Of Net Neutrality: A Complicated Dance Between Corporate Interests And Consumer Demand
“In this democratized system we call the Internet, anyone can put up an idea and it can be weighed fairly and openly by the consumer,” one Internet start-up CEO says. As consumers increasingly turn to video streaming services, what will that mean for net neutrality? → Read More
Racism And Unchecked Police Violence: An American Epidemic
“This situation is out of control and the police are out of control,” the outreach director of the Southern Poverty Law Center tells MintPress, adding that communities are uniting in their lack of faith in police and standing up to law enforcement. → Read More
Race And Racism Define Southern Politics, But Maybe Not For Long
The GOP wouldn’t be wise to think it can rely on its white voter base in the South for much longer. Despite an onslaught of restrictive voting laws in recent years, Republicans will need to shift gears from the “Southern Strategy” to inclusion to stay relevant. → Read More
Who’s Getting Caught In The “School-to-Prison” Pipeline? And Why?
The U.S. prison population is disproportionately black. The same racial disparity can be seen in the students who are punished in the nation’s schools. The connection between these two phenomena are stronger -- and more insidious -- than many may understand. → Read More
Migration Patterns Show An Immigration System Beset By Biases, Misperceptions
“Immigration is now a Heartland issue, it’s a Southern issue. It’s no longer just about border communities and New York and San Francisco anymore,” a human rights advocate tells MintPress. → Read More
Call To Demilitarize Police Grows, Gains New Supporters
The far left, the far right and what seems like everyone in between are coming together on one particular issue: demilitarizing U.S. police forces. → Read More