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Decentralized versus distributed platforms with Jean-Philippe Vergne

Talking about Platforms

CHAPTER

The Importance of Platforms

In 2013, 2014, I started researching Bitcoin cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. And it took me actually years to put the word platform on this particular phenomenon but now in hindsight, it seems very obvious that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are platforms. But it took me years to get to this obvious framing of the phenomenon. We are not used to looking at digital platforms that are structured, organizing this way.

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