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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. This is where I see cryptocurrencies today.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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I would see this many times of the next decade where I learned that nearly every part of the web that involved monetization was immediately gamed and arms races emerged between platforms to combat abuse and people looking for a quick buck. In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially.

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