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3D Printing Could Be Blockchain's True Game-Changer

Combined with other emerging tech, blockchain could enable a new paradigm of decentralized, on-demand production and realign global economic power.

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Crypto Needs More Than Code to Beat the ASIC Mining Threat

Defending cryptocurrencies against the centralizing forces of ASIC mining chips requires more than coding fixes; human governance is also critical.

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Blockchains Alone Won’t Fix the Facebook Problem

The root problem of social media is centralization of control over data. The ideas that underpin blockchain tech offer glimpses of a path forward.

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Time to Acknowledge – and Encourage – Women in Blockchain

Columnist Michael J. Casey on how men in the cryptocurrency and blockchain community can do more to advance the engagement of women in the space.

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Davos Elites Still Don't Get Blockchain

"It's not useful for anything," Krugman and his cohort claim. The problem of this blinkered mindset is that it fails to recognize the cost of trust.

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What a Facebook Blockchain Token Might Look Like

If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really wants to experiment with decentralized systems, a publicly issued crypto-token would be hell of a way to do it.

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Bitcoin Mining Wastes Energy? What If That's Good?

Long-term, the incentives bitcoin creates may drive efficiency and green energy solutions in the crypto world and even spur them in the wider economy.

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Bitcoin Has Gone Mainstream. That's a Very Big Deal

While we're still a long way from mass adoption, this is a moment of global awareness and dialogue that is opening up a wide array of possibilities.

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To the Moon? Time to Grow Up, Bitcoin

The immaturity of bitcoin’s investing culture constrains progress toward attaining the technology’s fundamental social value, Michael J. Casey writes.

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I'm Really Into Blockchain. I Blockchain Everything!

Imagine saying “I’m interested in ledger.” Must we accept this increasingly ubiquitous usage of the word "blockchain" as an unavoidable fact of life?

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