How the Chinese Government Is Trying to Reinvent the NFT Market Without Cryptocurrency—and With State Control Instead

See the news.artnet.com article here:

The BSN-DDC initiative has the potential to showcase not only digital art, but also for other applications. Outside China, NFTs are already being used by companies like the watchmaker Breitling, which deploys them as luxury-goods passports that prove authenticity.

I immediately thought of this post of mine, from Wednesday, 15 October 2014: Trustworthy Hardware.

See The Answer and this interview with Roger Schell from February 11, 2022: Over The Rainbow: 21st Century Security & Privacy Podcast Episode 3 – Roger Schell: High Assurance in the Twenty-First Century. More about the legendary 72 bit adder at 36:16. At 40:30 he could have talked about his Multics boot loader, ... I can't find where I wrote about checking the Multics source and finding that the boot loader is not actually the one that Roger wrote, but I did find this hilarious podcast I made in April 2020, suffering from lockdown stress: Sh*t Like This Really F***ing Pisses Me Off. I was very stressed, sorry about that. Good job Grant! 😂 As to the comment about shooting bastards, ... That's what governments do to protestors in Tiannanmen Square and Cochabamba, ...See MAS Demonstrations In Support of Evo Morales and Local Paper Reports Eight dead, 100 Wounded in Cochabamba, Bolivia. That was five months (and one "soft coup") before my rant.

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