Is Bitcoin in 2020 Really Like the Early Internet?
Bitcoin may be behind the internet’s timeline in terms of commercial use cases, but it has already achieved comparable social functions.
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Jan 11, 2020 at 10:20 a.m. UTC
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Handshake Revealed: VCs Back Plan to Give Away $100 Million in Crypto
Handshake plans to replace the digital entities that authenticate web payments, in the process rewarding those who built the web's infrastructure.
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Aug 2, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. UTC
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'Weary Giants of Flesh and Steel,' Meet Bitcoin
John Perry Barlow fought for an open internet. Late in life, he cautioned blockchain innovators that the technology could be liberating or oppressive.
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Feb 14, 2018 at 7:00 a.m. UTC
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Ethereum Meets Zcash? Why IPFS Plans a Multi-Blockchain Browser
Juan Benet, the creator of decentralized data-storing protocol IPFS, has big plans for connecting blockchains across the planet, and beyond...
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Apr 29, 2017 at 11:45 a.m. UTC
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The Blockchain is Still Waiting for Its Web. Here's a Blueprint
William Mougayar examines what it would take to introduce technologies and standards that make blockchain as ubiquitous and user-friendly as the Web.
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Jan 18, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
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