This is the best tech article this year (so far). Newsy, with context. Welcome to the chainiacs!
There’s a blockchain for that!
The code that secures Bitcoin could also power an alternate Internet. First, though, it has to work.
There’s this hopelessly geeky new technology. It’s too hard to understand and use. How could it ever break the mass market? Yet developers are excited, venture capital is pouring in, and industry players are taking note. Something big might be happening.
That is exactly how the Web looked back in 1994 — right before it exploded. Two decades later, it’s beginning to feel like we might be at a similar liminal moment. Our new contender for the Next Big Thing is the blockchain — the baffling yet alluring innovation that underlies the Bitcoin digital currency.
See Also:
Robert Steele: Reflections on the Next Data Revolution
Robert Steele: The End of Servers
Thomas Schwotzer: SharkSystem Negates Cloud and Servers — the Next Internet Emergent
