There will always be a need for lawyers. Can you control it? Can you regulate it in some manner? The game nowadays is to identify what are those new avenues, what are the new levels that exist on which you can actually affect the use of the technology. It and so as long as there is a few people anywhere in the world running a bitcon block chain node, then this, this blockthan will be available to people that manage. So either you have to shut down the internete or fir will everything down. But they will exist, and you cannot stop them.
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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