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Home 05 May 2018 Blockchain's two-flavored appeal Money A recent story in Medium describes yet again quite well why blockchains don't solve any real problems: Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. So what is their irresistable appeal? Bitcoins remind me of a story from the late chair of the Princeton University astronomy department. In 1950 Immanuel Velikovsky published Worlds in Collision, a controversial best selling book that claimed that 3500 years ago Venus and Mars swooped near the earth, causing catastrophes that were passed down in religions and mythologies. See more ...   posted at: 23:00 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Money/bccrud.html

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