Bitcoin … “A Model T for Payments”

We must praise Bitcoin for surviving a decade, and showing that there was a new world possible. But, for many in the research community who want to build more trusted systems, its legacy and its association with bad things is something that doesn’t help with outlining how a new digital world can be build. It has long been seen as a role-model for Blockchain/DLT (Distributed Ledger Transactions) work, and but has now become an…