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The strong implication is that Buterin and his colleagues will have to take a back seat in the AI bandwagon, which represents the climactic technology in the history of human invention. The idea of a new generation of transformational technologists does not fit the plot line of a new eschaton. But Google and its world are looking in the wrong direc

mining activity in China has been estimated to account for 30 percent of all hashing power.

This low-cost solution to the double-spending challenge launched a factory of ICOs as issuers found an easy way to tap a global investing community. No painful negotiations with venture capitalists over dilution and control of the board. No wining and dining of Wall Street investment banks to get them to put their clients on the order book. No wait

With bitcoin, it is possible to send money via a mobile phone, directly between two parties, to bypass that entire cumbersome, expensive system for international transfers.

Into this world of broken trust Satoshi Nakamoto placed his bitcoin project, just one month after the Lehman collapse. Did he choose the release date because of those events? It’s impossible to know for sure.