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The Sunday Debate: Blockchain, Quantum Leap Forward or Digital Snake Oil?
Intelligence Squared
Is There a Tulip Fever Elephant to Block Chain?
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The block chain data structure is forty years old. The myrcle tree data structure, it is not new, but it is being marketed with a bunch of outlandish miracle promises. And all the promises that the things branded block chain are sold with are actually old bit coin promises recycled. Like bitcoin is not decentralized any more. It's like, got three major miners, and one company makes 80 % of all the mining chips ar. So there is no technical tehna. Is no solid, technological, agreed definition of a block chain,. except something that attracts dreams and hopes - which might not be a bad ting.
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