The Debate Is Over— Now To Rebuild The World

AKA … “using cryptography properly”

Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.
- Bob Dylan

Over the past few years, we have had a debate over blockchain, but in the background it has been building itself into a machine which can create a more trusted world. The Internet we have created a piecemeal world or bits and pieces of security, and which never quite tie-up. It has the creditably of using an IP address as an identifier of a human. The new world will use cryptography to provide a solid foundation, where everything can be trusted. The debate is nearly over, and we now just have to get on with actually building it.

Call it what you want …

And so call it what you want … Blockchain … Distributed Ledgers … DAG (Directed Acylic Graphs) … it is really just a way to rebuild our digital world in a more trusted way. Personally I would call it “using cryptography properly” … but that doesn’t have the same ring to it. For me, cryptography is fixing many of the security problems that we have created, but it has a much greater role:

creating a safer and more robust world