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Ripple executive Chris Larsen has made a $250,000 donation to a series of proposals put forward by San Francisco Mayor London Breed that could see police handed more power when it comes to the US e of surveillance technology, drones, and in s US pect pursuits. According to the San Francisco Standard (SFS), Larsen is currently the top donor, handing over $350,000 to ballot measure campaigns sponsored by Breed in the run-up to next year’s election.  These ballot measures are potential policies that are proposed by competing candidates and will be put to a public vote. Larsen gave $250,000 to a campaign committee advocating for a more relaxed approach to approving police requests for surveillance tech. This would reportedly allow the police to use drones and facial recognition technology freely for a year before it can be scrutinized by supervisors. Crypto firms set to blow last year’s lobbying spend out of the water Read more: Here’s what the biggest stablecoins sp...

A group of pseudonymous developers from DarkFi spoke with Cointelegraph about how crypto is evolving amid privacy challenges, bad actors and government oversight. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon introduced one of the first critiques of centralized authority in 1848, a few years after publishing his now-classic book What is Property?  and calling for the abolition of property and the state. As per Proudhon’s view, any political change would be limited without economic change.  His work is at the heart of anarchism, “a political theory that is skeptical of the justification of authority and power,” according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Almost two centuries later, Proudhon’s thoughts about economics and power still echo in society, with encryption tools paving the way for parts of the ideal society envisioned in his theory. Crypto may be far from its original political principles, but projects reviving cypherpunk values are still thriving. One such project is DarkFi, a multichain...