Blockchain Revolution

Implications for the Blockchain Economy: The first era of the Internet missed
all this. Now we have a platform where people and even things have proper financial
incentives to collaborate effectively and create just about anything. Imagine online
discussion groups where participants have reputations worth enhancing, in part
because bad behavior will cost them financially. Trolls need not apply. Imagine a

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peer-to-peer network of solar panels where home owners receive real-time
compensation on the blockchain for generating sustainable energy. Imagine an open
source software project where a community of developers compensates
supercontributors for acceptable code. Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to
do.
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