The Space between Blockchain & “The Blockchain”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a center right, liberal conservative German paper founded in 1949, recently wrote a long article about the catchword after Bitcoin: the Blockchain. Or, as the article sometimes puts it, “the Blockchain.” The article at many points takes on a sarcastic tone, poking fun at the many wild theories about the potential of the “Blockchain” which proponents tout beyond the use-case of Bitcoin. When speaking about sober possibilities of the Bitcoin blockchain, the author Bettina Weiguny drops the quotations. She’s not convinced the blockchain can save the world.....
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