December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
564 pages
17h 34m
English
The curious contradiction of an emerging technology is that it's simultaneously lauded and condemned. Possibilities good and bad are considered and weighted.
Probably we tend a bit too much toward moralism—almost everyone interested in blockchain has been told that it's just for drugs. There's something to this: many people first heard of Bitcoin as something used on dark net markets, such as the Silk Road, and this use of Bitcoin is arguably responsible for the popularity of cryptocurrency. The same people might then be surprised that you have, in fact, been receiving your salary in Bitcoin for six or seven months.
Each evangelist has to genuinely consider the drawbacks—in Bitcoin, for instance, privacy ...
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