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Beijing tries to put its imprint on blockchain
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Blockchain’s selling point is to eventually allow numerous parties in a transaction to interact simultaneously and securely transfer assets over the net.
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China, home of the Great Firewall, is trying to bring order to a scrappy corner of cyberspace and in the process put its mark on the next-generation internet.
A Beijing-backed initiative aims to shape a category of online record-keeping called blockchain. Most commonly associated with bitcoin, blockchain holds broad promise for business and other uses but has been hobbled by a lack of uniform technical standards.
nobody is watching these actual videos here lined up right there, see that, but the views are going up. if you think 2016 russian disinformation was bad or unnerving, that was the tip of the iceberg. what if the entire internet is a fraud? max read joins me now. this piece blew my mind, particularly the lengths people are going to to game the system. so one big thing is, advertisers are buying ads on the internet, which is the main thing that s funding the internet, right, commercial content on the internet. pays my salary. pays your salary. and people are going to insane lengths to create ways of defrauding as if there are actually people watching the ads when they re not. so one of these cases, the doj just indicted these guys in november, they basically rented server space in dallas and they built a whole raft of fake websites. and then created a bunch of fake people who go to the websites. they moved cursors like real people, clicked on stuff like real people. not humans th
november, they basically rented server space in dallas and they built a whole raft of fake websites. and then created a bunch of fake people who go to the websites. they moved cursors like real people, clicked on stuff like real people. when you say fake people, not humans they hired for $10 an hour, but computer programs. what you call bots. so they gave them social media accounts. they even had them surf the web to draw in cookies so when they visited the fake websites it looked like you or me was visiting these things and they go to advertisers and say, oh, hundreds of thousands of people have looked at your ad and now pay up based on this contract we have. complete fraud. yeah, but it was a peaceful internet, i have to say. here s the thing, that s one example of a very acute version. but part of your piece is like no one on the internet knows how many people are viewing videos, all of the numbers facebook used for years to say that everyone s looking at video and every m
thing was the ads. let s give an example. one way to do it, hire a company in china, this is what it looks like, they just play the video on a wall of phones. nobody is watching these actual videos here lined up right there, see that, but the views are going up. if you think 2016 russian disinformation was bad or unnerving, that was the tip of the iceberg. what if the entire internet is a fraud? maximum reed joins me now. this piece blew my mind, particularly the lengths people are going to to game the system. so one big thing is, advertisers are buying ads on the internet, which is the main thing that s funding the internet, right, commercial content on the internet. pays my salary. pays your salary. and people are going to insane lengths to create ways of defrauding as if there are actually people watching the ads when they re not. yeah. so one of these cases, the doj just indicted these guys in november, they basically rented server space in dallas and they