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Ex-soccer stars, technologists announce DLT-powered social network Olyseum for sports fans

Former FC Barcelona players Carles Puyol, Iván de la Peña and Andrés Iniesta together with Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most famous hacker, and trained neuroscientist Carlos Grenoir have announced a distributed ledger technology (DLT)/blockchain-powered social network called Olyseum to empower sports fans.

Olyseum, the social network created by Barza stars with Blockchain

Olyseum is in the testing phase among the one million fans expected to arrive in Russia during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Via PC World in Spanish

The legends of FC Barcelona Andrés Iniesta, Carles Puyol and Iván de la Peña, in collaboration with a team of technology experts, take advantage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup for the international launch of Olyseum , the first social network that connects Sports fans with their idols. Based on the Blockchain technology, Olyseum will be tested among the million fans that are expected to travel to Russia during the World Cup.

Iniesta, Puyol De la Peña and drive Olyseum, the social network that connects fans with their idols

Footballers Andres Iniesta, Ivan de la Pena and Carles Puyol drive since last September Olyseum, the first social network connecting sports fans with their idols. Olyseum aims to bring the highest international level athletes to their fans through a platform that allows them to find information, access to unpublished content and interact like never before.

What Werner Herzog’s new film ‘Lo and Behold’ reveals about the internet

As the internet makes its way into more aspects of our everyday lives, Werner Herzog takes a closer look at the ethics of information flows in a new documentary. Alexander Nazaryan meets the German filmmaker  
    
Do not look at the photos of the Nikki Catsouras car crash that remain on the internet, lingering there maliciously despite the efforts of her parents to scrub them through ReputationDefender and, more simply, pleas to human decency. Look at pictures of Rollerblading dachshunds, click through a BuzzFeed quiz about Full House, read an article about Donald Trump’s grooming habits. Take a walk, for God’s sake. The photos of Catsouras’s mangled body hanging out of a car, head split open – as well as the story of how those photos ended up being disseminated on the internet – represent the most debased instincts of humanity. I gave in and looked, thinking they couldn’t be that bad. I was wrong.