A computer scientist who has studied and written about crypto pretty intensely. What brought you to that? So we are starting to see bad guys breaking into computers to mind crypto currency. And so i actually had a business model that allowed me to follow the space, even though i concluded right at the start it was a festering sewage lagoon of badness. I mean, there's, there's plenty o people who are simply crypto haters,. But from your point of view as a computer scientist, what are the underlying issues?"
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.
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