Simon de la Rouviere

Simon graduate with Master of Arts in Socio-Informatics (cum laude), researching information overload on microblogging services, and is currently pioneering the development of new societies based on blockchain technology. He has a keen interest in how the web shapes our daily lives. This passion has sparked an interest in programming and researching sociology/psychology around the web. Creator of Tweekly.fm (last.fm social media mashup: 450k updates a month) and creator of TwimeMachine (easy way to read old tweets: used by people such as Paulho Coelho, Cesc Fabregas, ESPN, CNBC, Sega, NBA, Adidas and Buddy Media). Tweekly.fm and TwimeMachine has been used by more than 1 million people.

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    With great power comes great responsibility. Once uploaded, the code on Ethereum runs exactly as programmed… forever. That is one of the platform’s core benefits: code that always interoperates as promised, can’t be tampered with, and has no down time. You don’t have to trust the creator or hosting, only the code. Except, that comes with a price. As we all know, bugs always creep up. In fact, in Ethereum, there’s already been circumstances where this code, which you can’t replace, has caused trouble.