Winning Slowly

Blockchain, the necessity of regulation, and the regulatory challenges posed by truly global technologies. Show Notes Blockchain and the associated currencies and techniques derived from it have been in the news a lot for the last few years. And it’s an incredibly interesting technology, which basically only has benefits for individual users – but has some profoundly distortive effects at scale, on everything from economics to energy consumption. So what do we do about it? Links Cryptokitties Chinese Bitcoin Miners getting relocated to… Canada. ICOs (“initial coin offerings”) explained “Smart Contracts” current regulatory approaches in Europe in South Korea, including the latest as of the show’s publication related: the relationship between trade agreements and regulation Blockchain and triple-entry accounting that’s exactly what it is! that’s not what it is Bitcoin will use 0.5% of the world’s electricity by the end of 2018 Terrorists have (unsurprisingly) already been using cryptocurrencies Bitcoin in