Day: February 2, 2023

We’re Trying to Make California’s DMV More Efficient With Blockchain

Fran Velasquez

A proof-of-concept testnet conducted last week shows how the partnership’s with the state agency can succeed, according to Smith. “The administration out there is actually very forward thinking and we should have systems in production this first quarter,” he said. Production, he explained, means “a shadow ledger, which will be our first step in the path to full deployment.” The ledger would essentially reflect California’s current driver database. Author: Fran Velasquez Source link

Is the Metaverse really turning out like ‘Snow Crash’? – Cointelegraph Magazine

Cointelegraph By Julian Jackson

‘Snow Crash’ by Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson’s science fiction novel Snow Crash predicted the Metaverse in 1992. This cult book has the amusingly-named Hiro Protagonist running around in an artificial cyber world, trying to stop a virus that wipes minds, aided by his hacker friend Y.T. Reality is a place to escape from, a neoliberal future wrecked by hyperinflation and inequality and run by corporations and gangsters and insane bureaucracy. In many ways, the book is horribly prescient. (It’s also horribly written in places, more like an info dump than…