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The blockchain issue
May/June 2018
The future of trust?
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A technology in turmoil
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Categorized in
Blockchain
In blockchain we trust
To understand why blockchain matters, look past the wild speculation at what is being built underneath, argue the authors of
The Age of Cryptocurrency
and its newly published follow-up,
The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
.
Categorized in
Blockchain
The blockchain believers
What makes blockchain devotees so passionate about the technology? We sent reporters and photographers to two blockchain conferences to find out.
Categorized in
Blockchain
Bitcoin would be a calamity, not an economy
A cryptocurrency future sounds liberating. In reality, it would be a disaster for everybody.
Categorized in
Blockchain
Bitcoin is eating Quebec
A Canadian hydropower operation put out the welcome mat for bitcoin miners. Shortly thereafter, it was overrun.
Categorized in
17041
Inside the Jordan refugee camp that runs on blockchain
Syrian refugees could regain legal identities that were lost when they fled their homes.
Categorized in
Computing
Sitting with the cyber-sleuths who track cryptocurrency criminals
Cryptocurrency networks are turning out to be far less private than we thought, and forensic investigators are turning that to their advantage.
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Blockchain
Let’s destroy Bitcoin
Three ways Bitcoin could be brought down, co-opted, or made irrelevant.
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