NEW: China is racing ahead of the United States on blockchain https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/china-is-racing-ahead-of-the-united-states-on-blockchain/2019/03/07/c1e7776a-4116-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html?utm_term=.83cedbaca0cb … by me @PostOpinions
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Possibly you are conflating blockchain and cryptocurrency?
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No. The non-cryptocurrency blockchain stuff is just pretty basic CS (i.e. the Merkle trees I mentioned). There's simply no compelling case for it being an enabling technology for "web 3.0" outside of what's already been used long before the blockchain/cryptocurrency craze.
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And all that web 3.0 malarkey is just a lightly simmered sheet from playing buzzword bingo. This is really disappointing
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…and besides, we already had the Swiss financial sector fulfilling these needs! (Okay, in the globalized and computerized era, I admit this is a bit outdated)
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