Is There No Part of the Cause?

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Snoop: Is there no part of it that you feel, hey, this is like actually a cool avenue? Snoop: There's. a lot of good faith people, i believe, still working in crypto currency. When bitcoin started out, i thought it was amusing, silly, you useless, but silly and a lot of comedy. In the 20, seventeenth bubble, it was more worrisome then it was; now it's on the scale of something an order of magnitude bigger than babies. And so, um, i laugh at thi pace, but truth be told, it's gallows humor the first time.

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.