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Nov 23, 2020

Brad Kam on an Unstoppable Mission against Corruption

Brad Kam, co-founder of Unstoppable Domain, fell down the crypto rabbit hole in a hacker house in San Francisco that was so rundown the hallways made a perfect set for filming horror movies. But that inauspicious start was where Brad had his epiphany and realized crypto was the best way to fight corruption.

Nov 16, 2020

Orchid’s “Follow the White Rabbit” Podcast is Hopping Onto Audius

We are thrilled that Audius, the decentralized, community-owned streaming platform, will start this month to carry our very own Follow the White Rabbit podcast.

Nov 9, 2020

Decrypt Reporter on Making Omelettes with Bert the Robot

Bert was talkative and expressive but he failed his audition to win a job helping to make omelettes. He dropped eggs all over the kitchen floor. Bert was actually one of three robots seeking employment as part of an experiment conducted by Adriana Hamacher during her Master in Science studies into machine-human interactions.

Nov 2, 2020

Latin America Looks to Blockchain to Improve Human Rights, Reporter Says

Felipe Erazo is an investigative journalist who researched the disappearance of 65,000 people during decades of civil war in his home country of Colombia.

Oct 26, 2020

Indian Crypto Exchange Founder on Financial Censorship

Neeraj Khandelwal co-founded CoinDCX, India's largest cryptocurrency exchange, in response to his own liquidity-starved trading challenges.

Oct 20, 2020

David Pan on China’s Impact on Blockchain and Human rights

David Pan is originally from China and moved to the United States three years ago for a masters degree in business journalism. That propelled him to becoming an international business reporter at the largest blockchain and cryptocurrency media publication, Coindesk.

Oct 14, 2020

How to make sure your VPN is working properly

VPN leaks can jeopardize users’ privacy. Here’s how to find them and fix them.

Oct 5, 2020

Oasis Labs CEO Dawn Song on Building the Responsible Data Economy

Dawn Song is ranked as the most cited scholar on computer security. So when the UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Science and CEO of Oasis Labs says she is helping to build a new data privacy paradigm, people pay attention.

Sep 29, 2020

Ex-FDIC Regulator On Trust And the Battle of the Social Media Videos

When Jason Brett first arrived at the FDIC, he was greeted with the joke that he should have brought a pillow to work at the sleepy agency. Little did he know that, within a week in that summer of 2008, he would have a front-row seat to what was the largest bank collapse in U.S. history.

Sep 22, 2020

Can Technology Be Compassionate? Developer Val Mack Explains How

Val Mack, a Software Architect at Quant Five, and founder of Festival Labs, believes cryptography and blockchain have the power to do social good by protecting privacy and allowing autonomy in what she calls “compassionate technology.”

Sep 15, 2020

Open Source Elections Pioneer on Helping Voters With Technology

Dr. Juan E. Gilbert, a professor at the University of Florida, can recall the disputed U.S. presidential election 20 years ago when fiascos over counting ballots in the Sunshine State left the country in limbo.

Sep 8, 2020

Pioneer Programmer Brian J. Fox on Championing Open Source

When Brian J. Fox, Co-founder of Orchid and the original author of the GNU Bash shell, started out as a pioneer programmer, it was the free exchange of creative ideas that drove advances in computer science.

Sep 1, 2020

Beanstalk Ventures Managing Partner Ken Seiff on the dark side of the Internet

With a special guest appearance by Orchid CEO Dr. Steven Waterhouse on this week's episode of Follow the White Rabbit

Aug 24, 2020

Richard Muirhead on Blockchain and the New Decentralized Economy

Richard Muirhead has been a Bitcoin believer since as early as 2013. That has provided the partner of Fabric Ventures with a valuable perspective on blockchain and digital assets.

Aug 17, 2020

Berkeley City Council Member Ben Bartlett on civil rights and defending democracy

This week on Follow the White Rabbit, Ben speaks with Orchid’s Alex Kehaya on the fight for freedom and civil rights in the context of his own personal journey.

Aug 5, 2020

How to earn OXT today

We know many of you are wondering what the best way is to earn OXT, Orchid’s native digital currency. There are currently a number of ways people can earn, with more planned for the future.

Mar 20, 2020

Orchid update: actions taken in response to COVID-19

Orchid is now available for free to all journalists, so they can further free speech and the flow of information no matter where they are.

Jan 27, 2020

4 Factors We Considered Before Choosing Ethereum

When we started out designing the Orchid privacy network, we faced the fundamental decision of which blockchain Layer 1 platform to build on.

Oct 9, 2019

Orchid: A New Approach to VPNs

We’re building a next-gen VPN market powered by probabilistic nanopayments, with a design emphasizing these core tenets: scalability, decentralization, usability, simplicity, and extensibility.

May 7, 2019

Orchid Labs May 2019 Update

Orchid Labs’ mission is to build open source software that keeps the Internet open and accessible — a natural resource for everyone, everywhere.