“Blockchain” Led Paradigm Shift From Anti-to Pro-Establishment Shocks Bitcoin Community

“Blockchain” Led Paradigm Shift From Anti-to Pro-Establishment Shocks Bitcoin Community

At a Blockchain Conference in San Francisco last month, a spat between Tone Vays, Head of Research at Bitcoin news portal Brave New Coin, and Safe Cash’s Chris Kitze, highlighted the paradigm shift in the blockchain technology industry. Whereas historically Bitcoiners have often championed Bitcoin as a way to undermine government and banks, a new breed of blockchainers believe that the underlying technology, the blockchain, can make banks and governments better at what they do. “There’s a couple of things you said that made absolutely no sense to me,” Vays told Kitze from the audience....


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