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Bitcoin: Twenty Years Ago, Two Men Predicted Cryptocurrency

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Twenty Years Ago, Two Men Predicted Bitcoin: Clinton began his second term as President of the United States. Titanic dominated the box office. Hanson’s “MMMBop” stormed music charts.  The year, 1997, also turned out to be when two cranks, fringe thinkers, wrote The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (TSI), published by … Read more

Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

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Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain: Everyone says the blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, is going to change everything.  And yet, after years of tireless effort and billions of dollars invested, nobody has actually come up with a use for the blockchain — besides currency speculation … Read more