Mozilla Foundation: Bitcoin’s Technology Bolsters Internet Health

Mozilla Foundation: Bitcoin’s Technology Bolsters Internet Health

In its Internet Health Report 2017, the Mozilla Foundation points towards a more transparent and decentralized internet, in which the Bitcoin’s underlying technology the Blockchain will play a significant part. What Makes a Healthy Internet? Although we usually think of the internet as a global network that is open and equal to all, this is often not the case. Different countries apply different rules and restrictions, some of them enforcing them with methods like the ones applied with China’s Great Firewall. Lack of openness also damages the internet itself as a global network. According....


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