Blockchain Revolution

The ledger itself is the foundation of trust.16

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Those who say “privacy is dead—get over it” are wrong.22 Privacy is the foundation of free societies.

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“People have a very simplistic view of identity,”23 said blockchain theorist Andreas Antonopoulos. We use the word identity to describe the self, the projection of that self to the world, and all these attributes that we associate with that self or one of its projections.

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Pundits often refer to Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, and others as platforms for the “sharing economy.” It’s a nice notion—that peers create and share in value. But these businesses have little to do with sharing. In fact, they are successful precisely because they do not share—they aggregate.

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None of these companies existed a decade ago because the technological preconditions were not there: ubiquitous smart phones, full GPS, and sophisticated payment systems.

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