The Top 5 Takeaways from CoinDesk’s State of Blockchain Q1 2016

The Top 5 Takeaways from CoinDesk’s State of Blockchain Q1 2016

The first quarter of 2016 saw a number of notable changes in the blockchain industry, the most obvious and contentious of which may have been the evolving language used to describe the industry itself. Once termed the "bitcoin industry", such a definition no longer seems adequate in describing the breadth of innovation being pursued by industry innovators on technologies that increasingly diverge from the original implementation of blockchain technology, bitcoin. In addition to the entrepreneurs building on the bitcoin blockchain, the quarter provided ample validation for....


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