The new Netflix documentary Banking on Bitcoin is pretty interesting and unintentionally perhaps draws you to the worries in the post.
Ed _______________________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > On Dec 28, 2017, at 11:42 AM, Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com> wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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 > > <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 > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> by Dr. Strangelove > > ============================================================ > 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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