I think that at the moment, ar the code is the law line. Its origins are in the history of this crypto anarchic wold. That was always the grand philosophy. And so that sort of thread has run all the way through from the early nineties into the modern ethereum down and other things. But i think it's actually, i think this is the great tension of the day. Can laws ever keep upwith this technology? Our laws going to have to be passed which are essentially based on what's technically feasible.
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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