Is There Any Potential for That Good to Be Done?

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M: It would seem hard to find in the space right now enough good to make up for all the people who've lost their money already. The tech logy underlying the space is just so bad, it's such shit. A distributed solution is where you have many, many players, but they're all identify. So if you want to piss off china by hoasting the grand pake ina, alter winny the poo you just hoasted in the us. And the chinese government can't do anything about it, right? Yes.

Crypto is crashing, which makes it the perfect time to ask whether blockchain technology is actually — you know — useful for anything. Computer scientist Nicholas Weaver joins Adam to discuss the inherent flaws in the technology, the shockingly slow state of innovation considering that the technology has been around for a decade, and what a better system for digital money might be. You can follow Nicholas on Twitter at @ncweaver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.