Is Blockchain Beating Bitcoin? TechCrunch's New Series Weighs In

Is Blockchain Beating Bitcoin? TechCrunch's New Series Weighs In

What is the blockchain? Where did bitcoin come from? And are bitcoin and blockchain still competing? These are the kinds of questions up for grabs in TechCrunch's new streaming series, "Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain". Launching yesterday, the show explores how global finance is being forced to change and adapt thanks to the arrival of this technology. Narrated by New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper, the series seeks to answer the all-too-difficult question of what actually makes a blockchain. Taken a step further, it explores how the same entities that bitcoin....


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