Since crypto is doing so great this week, here's Sandy Pentland explaining why and how he thinks blockchain is about to take off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbd_QHtLTp0 The lecture is from May this year. The questioning from the Stanford audience is instructive. Interestingly, the immediate impetus for the take off might be the sucking sound that was the USA vacuuming up all the Russian assets under US control when Putin invaded Ukraine. Although much of the world approved of the sanctions, many were appalled at the ease with which the Russian economy was wiped out. They would rather live in a world where this was not quite so easy. -- rec --
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