The Wild World of Blockchain in 2018

Summary

A decade has passed since Bitcoin’s mysterious founder published a paper describing blockchain, the technology behind the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency. Exuberant evangelists have since touted blockchain’s potential to solve many of the world’s problems. Pundits claim it will revolutionize the global economy, end poverty, eliminate identity theft and transform the future of work. Blockchain is also held up as our best chance to save the Internet, countering the power of giants like Facebook and Amazon by reviving the open-protocol ethos of the early web.