i can see how, especially countries where voting ballots are stuffed routinely, if you can create some kind of decentralized system for people to check that their own votes have been counted accurately. But why are we so down on intermediaries? Intermediaries are necessary when things go wrong, and things nearly always go wrong. I mean, i think it's very exciting what it's doing. Andd i really enjoyed going over there and visiting it ad but i don't think it's quite there yet.
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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