Very good article. Crypto currencies seem to have the most appeal with
people are essentially antisocial, or at least, anti-government. I loved
the statement early on in the article, "Bitcoin is what banking looked like
in the middle ages — 'here’s your libertarian paradise, have a nice day.'"

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote:

> Nice contrarian view on bitcoin and blockchains in general:
> ​  ​
> https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-
> with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100
>
> ​I suspect blockchains will go the way torrent file systems went: they'll
> be great for IT infrastructure, so folks like Amazon Web Services will use
> them:
>
>    - Torrents: redundant, secure storage
>    - Blockchains: redundant, secure transactions​
>
> ​   -- Owen​
>
>
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