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MIT IDE Paula Klein, Editor

Mar 4, 2019

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A Necessary Re-set for Blockchain?

The technology is becoming more mundane, and also more useful

By Irving Wladawsky-Berger

Image: ComputerworldUK

Blockchain was created around a decade ago as the public, distributed ledger for the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Most everyone agrees that it’s a truly brilliant architecture, built on decades-old fundamental research in cryptography, distributed data…

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