…tice as a typical Detroit brand manager would be — with only the past as a guide to brand strategy. Musk saw he was looking at the future in which the key assets were not promotion or a dealer network, but product quality and customer enthusiasm.
In this situation, what exactly is the padlock? Broadly speaking, it’s the public key. But the Bitcoin protocol has one more variation on public key cryptography — instead of including Bob’s public key itself, Alice can include Bob’s bitcoin address. Bitcoin addresses are derived from public keys, so it’s like Alice is putting a specific representat…