All all things that are supposedly decentralized, in the end end up centralized. bitcoin is used by different types of people but it's also onest to say that most, i i think that the research was like 97 person, 98 %, is used by legitimate businesss and not criminals. The level opers are really fighting this back in a way, they are offering all these types of different cryptoccurrences, which is harder to centralize. We cannot develop a single machine that can mine it. And we can also see that even though the players and the mining is getting centralized, there is a great incentive to actually keep bitcoin immutable. Even if your big ist mined there,
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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