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Not everyone could be like Blockchain, the wallet-and-bitcoin-analytics firm that paid staff and suppliers in bitcoin and had no regular bank account.

Larimer and BitShares are all about DACs, “decentralized autonomous corporations.”

“What would it seem like if it did seem like a global, digital, sound, open, programmable money was monetizing from absolute zero?”

But cryptocurrency’s future has a binary aspect: if it fails, nothing happens; if it succeeds, it’s a game-changer.

In summation, we believe that a clearer view of this brave new world of blockchain architecture includes cryptocurrencies, cryptocommodities, and cryptotokens, just as we have had currencies, commodities, and finished goods and services in the preceding centuries.

The picture that emerges is of a lopsided world divided between a small but well-financed clique that’s convinced cryptocurrency is going to change the world and everybody else, who can’t see what all the fuss is about. Without support from the second group, the vision of the first won’t come true.

is incubating Blockchain 2.0 projects by offering $50,000 bounties—a kind of investment award—for start-ups that devise solutions to some of the obstacles to these projects’ development.