"The sooner it happens, the less real world damage it'll do," he says. "We've managed to fire wall the crypto currency space off from the broader financial s. A like every time they try to do a bit coin exchange trade en fund on the c goesnum." He adds: 'I'm hopeful that those things are going to act as a limiter on the amount of damage that gets done when the space collapses'
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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