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 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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