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#publicstate episode 36 ‘FLoC-ing’ just landed 👽🛸! This week we dive 🤿 into yet another one of Google’s announced plans for building a more private web; ‘Federated Learning of Cohorts’:🤖Machine Learning into chrome💻😨Build up a Behavioral Credit Score to categorize users 🤷‍♂️🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏽Group users into ..Flocks to be ‘Anonymous’?😵🦆FLoCs as an easier starting point for tracking users🔫🙄Privacy Not Privacy😡This is a continuation of our initial reaction to Google’s Privacy Sandbox ⛱️ announcement from episode 32. 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗 Google: Building a more private web Chromium Privacy Sandbox FLoC github EFF - Dont play - Googles Privacy Sandbox  Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol, email us at social@glimpseprotocol.io, follow us on instagram @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow @public_state on Twitter 3. Follow Alasdair on twitter @almactheealmanac 4. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 5. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

#publicstate episode 35 ‘Conversion Measurement’ just landed 👽🛸! This week we dive 🤿 into another one of Google’s announced plans for building a more private web; ‘Conversion Measurement API Tool’: 🔗Link up ad impressions with conversions✅🆕 metadata tags to ads🏷️ 🙋Proposed data attached limits: Apple’s 6 bits ▫️ vs Google’s 64 bits ⬜ 😕No substance behind the amount of meta data being added🤷‍♀️🛡️Privacy for consumers or better tracking for advertisers?🔍 This is a continuation of our initial reaction to Google’s Privacy Sandbox ⛱️ announcement from episode 32. We will be diving into the other sandbox proposals during future episodes 🔮 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗 Google: Building a more private web Chromium Privacy Sandbox Conversion Measurement - Github and Issue 11 EFF - Dont play - Googles Privacy Sandbox  Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol, email us at social@glimpseprotocol.io, follow us on instagram @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow @public_state on Twitter 3. Follow Alasdair on twitter @almactheealmanac 4. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 5. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Public State Episode 34 "Privacy Budget"!This week we dive 🤿 into another one of Google’s announced plans for building a more private web; ‘Privacy Budget for Fingerprinting’:⚔️ Combating Fingerprinting with a Budget 🥡🤏 Limit information gathering 🛍️😕 Linking increased fingerprinting from cookie restrictions 🍪🙅‍♂️Unfair to competitors of google 🙅‍♀️This is a continuation of our initial reaction to Google’s Privacy Sandbox ⛱️ announcement from episode 32. We will be diving into the other sandbox proposals during future episodes 🔮 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗 Google: Building a more private web Chromium Privacy Sandbox Privacy Budget - Github and Issue 2 / Issue 6 EFF - Dont play - Googles Privacy Sandbox  Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol, email us at social@glimpseprotocol.io, follow us on instagram @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow @public_state on Twitter 3. Follow Alasdair on twitter @almactheealmanac 4. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 5. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

#publicstate episode 33 ‘Diving Into The Sandbox’ just landed 👽🛸! This week we dive 🤿 into one of Google’s announced plans for building a more private web; Trust API: 🚦 Alternative to CAPTCHAs 🚘 👍 Based on the Privacy Pass browser extension 😃 🔑 Use of anonymous “Trust Tokens” to prove human 🙋‍♀️   This is a continuation of our initial reaction to Google’s Privacy Sandbox ⛱️ announcement from episode 32. We will be diving into the other sandbox proposals during future episodes 🔮  💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗 Google: Building a more private web Chromium Privacy Sandbox Trust Token API EFF - Dont play - Googles Privacy Sandbox  Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol, email us at social@glimpseprotocol.io, follow us on instagram @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow @public_state on Twitter 3. Follow Alasdair on twitter @almactheealmanac 4. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 5. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

#publicstate episode 32 ‘Google’s Privacy Sandbox’ just landed 👽🛸! This week we look into Google’s announced plan for building a more private web 🙄. We discuss ‘The Privacy Sandbox’ and how its: Misleading 🔄 Not introducing consumer benefiting privacy🚫😢 Continuing to argue that 3rd party tracking cookies aren’t bad 🤥😨 and If cookies go then more insidious technologies will emerge😈   This is our initial reaction to the announcement from Google 😖 and we will be sure to dive further into various proposals and explainers within the Sandbox ⛱️ in future episodes. 😃💥Enjoy💥😃 Links 🔗 Can Google ever provide privacy for their users? Googles: Building a more private web Chromium Privacy Sandbox Deconstructing Googles Excuses on Tracking Protection EFF - Dont play - Googles Privacy Sandbox  Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol, email us at social@glimpseprotocol.io, follow us on instagram @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow @public_state on Twitter 3. Follow Alasdair on twitter @almactheealmanac 4. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 5. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

#publicstate ep 31 ‘Attribution Tracking’ just landed 👽🛸! This week we discuss some of the ways you’re being tracked and what Apple is doing about it with Safari: How attribution tracking works ⚙️🤔 Url redirects 🔀 Apple’s proposed standard for attribution tracking 📜 Do not track 🚷 How this affects developers and users 🤷‍♀️ 😃💥Enjoy💥😃 Links 🔗 Privacy preserving ad click attribution for the web wtf Apples ad attribution tool Apples attribution fix for safari explained  Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol, email us at social@glimpseprotocol.io, follow us on instagram @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow @public_state on Twitter 3. Follow Alasdair on twitter @almactheealmanac 4. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 5. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

#publicstate ep 30 ‘Hack Responses’ just landed 👽🛸!!! This week we review a few crypto hacks from the past year: ZCash’s secrete code patch of the counterfeiting bug 🤐 Passing of the torch(vulnerability) through forks 👫 Second applications vulnerabilities 💐🥀 Komodo hacking their community to protect them  😲 Binance pays out of pocket to restore funds from exchange hack  💰👋🤫 Were these good responses 👍👎?💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗 Zcash Hack Komodo's update - Agama Vulnerability Komodo Developers Hacked Users Binance Hack Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol, email us at social@glimpseprotocol.io, follow us on instagram @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow @public_state on Twitter 3. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 4. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 5. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Summary 📚#publicstate ep 29 ‘Life and Times of Justin Sun’ just landed 👽🛸!!! This week we do a little research on one of our favorite Blockchain characters - Justin Sun 😄We discuss: Political Economy + 1 Bitcoin = Ripple Qualified 🤨 China’s Crypto Chief Shiller 🤮 His father Jack Ma  👶👨 Creating TRON and BitTorent tokens 💰 How to be a Super Representative 🦍 Dinner 🍽️ with Buffet and the sudden illness 🤒 🤣😂🤣😂💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗Could This Millennial Crypto Tech Visionary Be The Next Jack Ma Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol email us at social@glimpseprotocol.io, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech & @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

#publicstate ep28 ’Pivot’ This week we bring a short update about the pod.  Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech & @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

#publicstate ep27 ’The Great Hack’ just landed 👽🛸!!! #Netflix #Privicy #Datarights #memes This week the guys provide an indepth review 🍿 of the resent documentary 📽️ surrounding Cambridge Analytica harvesting data 👿 from Facebook users 😱. We discuss:-The awareness of data privacy and information warfare ⚔️ was a positive for the film, however, we wished 🙏 that more of Cadwalladr’s investigative reporting was included!-The insights of Kaiser and Carroll as they react to the testimonies from Zuck and Nix 👀😃👏.-The power of memes 🤣🤔🤣-& more 😃‘Help join the struggle to take back our data’ - David Carroll 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗 The Guardian - The Great Hack The Great Hack Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech & @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

#publicstate ep26 ’Oops I Sharded - Part 2’ 🚧Road to Serenity Part 3🛠️ just landed 👽🛸!!! #Ethereum #Beaconchain #ETH2.0 #Blockchain #Crypto We discuss and further explain the ‘simplicity’😆 of sharding on ETH2.0🤣. In part 2 we dive deep into shards🤓; state sharding; cross-shard transactions and how to transport a delicious cake 😋🍰If you missed part 1 we reviewed the beacon chain, the basic overview of shards and validator partitioning 🤔; how to become a validator; the importance ⚠️ of the beacon chain in relation to the shards; protecting🛡️ against malicious 👿validators. Listen here before diving into part 2. 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗Validators and AttestationsHonest validator spec for the beacon chainEth Wiki Sharding FAQRecent blog post on Eth2.0 Scaling and Sharding Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech & @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Summary 📚#publicstate ep25 ’Oops I Sharded - Part 1’ 🚧Road to Serenity Part 3🛠️ just landed 👽🛸!!! #Ethereum #Beaconchain #ETH2.0 #Blockchain #Crypto We discuss and explain the ‘simplicity’😆 of sharding on ETH2.0. So simple in fact that we needed two episodes to cover the overview of sharding basics 🤣. In part 1 we review the beacon chain, the basic overview of shards and validator partitioning 🤔; how to become a validator; the importance ⚠️ of the beacon chain in relation to the shards; protecting🛡️ against malicious 👿 validators ; keep tabs on those crypto-kitties 😿; and the cabin in Ontario’s woods🌳.Stay tuned for Part 2 😃 where we dive deeper into shards🤓; state sharding; cross-shard transactions and how to transport a delicious cake 😋🍰 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗Validators and AttestationsHonest validator spec for the beacon chainEth Wiki Sharding FAQRecent blog post on Eth2.0 Scaling and Sharding Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech & @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Summary 📚#publicstate ep24 ’Libra’ just landed 👽🛸!!! #libra #calibra #Blockchain #Crypto This week we discuss: Facebook's Libra ‘blockchain’🙄 and Calibra wallet; the double-speak 🤥 littered 🚮 throughout their documentation; our fears 😨 of how this will affect us and our privacy😱; how this is a clever creation of a new bank💱 using blockchain terms; the US government's letter 📝 to Zuck to hold off until ✋🛑 they figure out what to do🤔; and why we need a new monster 👹 to battle this Libra monster♎ - Godzilla Style🤣 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗Libra CalibraWikipedia: LibraDavid Marcus - Libra 2 Weeks In Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech & @glimpseprotocol, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Summary 📚#publicstate ep23 ’Beacon Chain’ 🚧Road to Serenity Part 2🛠️ just landed 👽🛸!!! #Ethereum #Beaconchain #ETH2.0 #Blockchain #Crypto This week part 2 of our investigation 🕵️ into Ethereum’s road to Serenity😃 we try to breakdown these items of Serenity Phase 0 - Beacon Chain: 🔨PoW to PoS💪: Finality and Consensus with staking validators; Staking rewards😇 and Punishments😈; ETH1.x relation to ETH2.0; and the link to future 🔮 Shard Chains. Tim discusses the history of Ethereum leading to the Beacon Chain📅; Dave makes an analogy to Star Trek🤣; and Al is worried about how to take care of all the Cryptokitties🙀.   💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗1. State of Ethereum Protocol-1 2. State of Ethereum Protocol 2 The Beacon Chain 3. Jon Choi: Ethereum Casper 101 4. https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/blob/dev/README.md Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Summary 📚#publicstate ep21 ’Battle of the Protocols’ - Part2 just landed 👽🛸!!! #Ethereum #EOS  #Tron #Tezos With James and Max from Bitassist we continue our discussion on their report ⚔️Battle of the Protocols🛡️!!! We dive further into the report regarding community & sentiment utilizing data 📊 from Omenics to analyze social sentiment, volumes and news sentiment compared to price📈😃Listen to Part 1 to hear the discussion of key metrics between the protocols🕵️; contrasts regarding the number of transactions per second; the decentralization of governance🌍; and distribution (node count)🖥️. 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗BitAssist’s YouTube channel and website OmenicsState of the dappsUnlocking crypto-asset valuations - Meetup June 18th Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Summary 📚#publicstate ep21 ’Battle of the Protocols’ - Part1 just landed 👽🛸!!! #Ethereum #EOS  #Tron #Tezos This week James and Max from Bitassist return to the pod to discuss their report ⚔️Battle of the Protocols🛡️!!! In Part 1 we discuss key metrics between the protocols🕵️; contrasts regarding the number of transactions per second; the decentralization of governance🌍 and distribution (node count)🖥️. An interesting discussion on how various metrics can be used to compare aspects of various #Blockchain #Protocols🚀     Stay tuned for Part 2 😃 where we dive further into the report regarding community & sentiment utilizing data 📊 from Omenics to analyze social sentiment, volumes and news sentiment compared to price📈.💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗BitAssist’s YouTube channel and website Unlocking crypto-asset valuations - Meetup June 18thOmenics State of the dapps Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Summary 📚#publicstate ep20 ’Istanbul’ 🚧Road to Serenity Part 1🛠️ just landed 👽🛸!!! #Ethereum #Upgrade #EIP 🤓🤔🤔 This week we start part 1 of our investigation 🕵️ into Ethereum’s road to Serenity 💡 and start with the next scheduled Eth Fork #Istanbul.  We talk about: #ETH1.x vs #Serenity🚀; various EIP categories🤓; #ProgPow💪; eWASM😃; and somehow join garbage collectors, state rent and VLOOKUP into a discussion point 🤣 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗Istanbul EIP Readiness ChecklistEthereum Improvement ProposalsIstanbul Roadmap Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Summary 📚#publicstate ep19 ‘Binance is the old Microsoft’ just landed 👽🛸!!! Reading between the chains⛓️ finds reasons for skepticism! This week we express our concerns with: Binance’s behavior paralleling that of early Microsoft😨; ICOs/IEOs😩; Chain Lockin😮; Lottery Tickets😫; Chain rollbacks😤; and the upcoming announcements for the battling casinos EOS and TRON😱. Gods Help Us!🙏🤞 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗 How to participate in Binance launchpad ICOs and IEOs EOS Launch on Coinbase ahead of the June 1st Announcement  Trons Big June 1st Announcement: Announcement on June 3rd! Comical article: Binance Chain CZs final scam Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Summary 📚#publicstate ep18 🌉SanFranlambo🏎️ just landed 👽🛸!!! Memories 😃 of San Francisco, #Tachyon19, & #Ethereum 👏This week the tired 😴 Glimpse boys reflect on the amazing #Tachyon19 final weeks and demo day San Francisco💪😃; what a great job 👍 all the Cohort Teams did on demo day; how amazing the Tachyon Team was throughout the process!!👏😃 blue tick guy; security robots; the weather 🌧️😢; and with the recent eth roadmap updates the guys eye plans to discover the road to Serenity 🔥🚀   💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗 TachyonCV Consensys The Roadmap to Serenity Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Jon on Twitter @jnsgruk 5. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7

Summary 📚#publicstate ep17 ⚡ Blok-Z ⚡ just landed 👽🛸!!! decentralized electricity, #Tachyon19, #Ethereum 🔥🔥🔥This week we chat with Selim from @z_blok about enabling energy trade for producers and consumers for storing & using energy by utilizing blockchain technology 💪😃; micro purchases of power; P2P electricity trading👏👍; and saving electricity to make money🤑⚡. 💥Enjoy💥 Links 🔗 Blok-Z’s website CEO and Co-Founder: Selim Satici Social 🤼1. To learn more about us, checkout glimpse protocol & broadhaven.tech, email us at publicstate@broadhaven.tech, follow us on instagram @broadhaventech, or subscribe on YouTube. 2. Follow Alasdair on Twitter @almactheealmanac 3. Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHolmesMitra 4. Follow Jon on Twitter @jnsgruk 5. Follow Dave on Twitter @D7mac7