Building a Risk Market for the Digital Age Using Bitcoin
This is a guest post by Michael Folkson. The Internet was originally developed as a network for information exchange. Now, a multitude of entrepreneurs and software developers are building the Internet for value exchange. The next logical progression is to build the Internet for risk exchange. Just as units of currency can be transferred to a third....
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