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Re:Veteran Wall Street enforcers are landing new roles in vi... by pjc50 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:38PM (#16478196)
It doesn't necessarily have to go somewhere good. Collapsing pyramid schemes caused a civil war in Albania.

I suspect all the financial-instrument like coins will end up banned in the West, and one or two of the blockchain apps will survive. Maybe "filecoin". There will also be a lot of things called "blockchain" that are very unlike cryptocurrencies; the X509 PKI of the future.

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Re:Veteran Wall Street enforcers are landing new roles in vi... by atomical on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @05:02PM (#16478415)
Why Filecoin? It hasn't launched and it isn't even traded. There are several startups backed by ERC-20 tokens that have been building a product and will launch this year.

One is even a YC startup, Request Network. Another, FunFair, has developed its own state channel technology because of an innovation gap with Ethereum.

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