Depends on the governance of the network.

Everybody knows that companies and banks can offer payment services. Bitcoin is a scientific break-through, which is open source and distributed (more or less). Weaver should work on researching and fixing the problems that haven't been solved, yet, in crypto space. Instead he advertises for Vodafone! How can this guy call himself researcher?!

All banks (worldwide!) started working on crypto and are going to offer crypto services soon. Laws have been adopted in recent years so that crypto can be integrated into banks fully compliant.

It's sad to read comments from smart people who are wrong about everything. Man, you really have no clue how currencies work and what value means. Also fighting for crypto == cryptography is a fight Don Quixote would've picked.

Yes, teachers should know CounterStrike. It's still a great game.

Ask again in 4 years.

It's a hoax, but due to a different reason. The whole point of web3 is that you're not able to just copy everything. That's why tokens can represent ownership. Now Geoffrey comes and copies (or did he not?) all web2 URLs from the web3 tokens. So what? It doesn't defeat any promise of web3. It just shows what everybody already knew: in web2 you can just copy everything.

IBM is still strong on Hyperledger Fabric blockchain.

Blockchains only make sense when connected to external nodes. For all data storage requirements within your company: use a database!

Without the possibility to connect nodes outside of Azure it was rather useless anyway. Seems like Microsoft didn't understand the blockchain eco system in the first place.

I wonder if openlibra.io has plans to build a reserve in order to keep their coins stable, like Libra had. But is this possible in a permissionless network at all?

Excel does translate the keywords. So in Germany we have to write =WENN(...) instead of =IF(...). But real programming languages don't translate keywords.

With so many years in development, especially the language specification, it seems like Perl6 must have the most sophisticated design of all programming languages. Unfortunately it has no killer application (yet), and Perl6 code doesn't look as beautiful as Ruby code. What is being done to make Perl6 more attractive?

So what now? And please don't tell me to just vote for the "right" party. That doesn't work. Most people will have forgotten Mr. Snowden when it comes to the next votes. Or their priorities have changed by then (jobs, terrorism, whatever might give an appropriate fear factor). How can I make my government stop bringing 1984 to reality?

Don't send him bug reports and feature requests. If he's in charge of something you care about, ask him if he would give it to you (completely!). Then you can fix whatever you want. You will see that there'll be a new guy soon who thinks that your work is sloppy, sending bug reports and feature requests to YOU!