Jame: Is it just a place for criminals to dance and undo their thing? I don't think is is really the main problem. But it is certainly, has been and will be picked up by criminals as earli er doctors,. It alreadly already was and will be in the future. We we know that there's been a significant increase in the number of people that have been victims of bit coemrulated crime. And so governments do have to regulate, but they're not doing much of it at the moment. So, and i want them to do more and get in this space more actively. Breki em going time.
Blockchain technology has gone mainstream. It earns huge amounts of column inches and airtime. Stories abound of Bitcoin millionaires and multimillion-dollar ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). New cryptocurrencies are launched every week. People who don’t entirely understand what they’re buying are rushing to purchase Bitcoin for fear of missing out, and recently the UK's Royal Mint announced its first ever blockchain-based non-fungible token, an NFT. Back in 2018, Intelligence Squared gathered crypto specialists to debate whether blockchain technology has a legitimate future or not, including Jamie Bartlett, author and analyst on the politics of the internet, blockchain expert Primavera De Filippi, Vit Jedlička, President of the micronation Liberland, and crypto journalist David Gerard. The host for this discussion was journalist, author and former BBC News Editorial Director, Kamal Ahmed.
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