Gates & Buffet are right. As an "Asset Class" - which this article makes principle - cryptocurrency is absolute insanity. But having a trustless, semi-distrib

Gates & Buffet are right. As an "Asset Class" - which this article makes principle - cryptocurrency is absolute insanity. But having a trustless, semi-distributed, potentially anonymous, and global currency that we can send to anybody in the world via the internet in a few seconds - or even via an offline mesh network - is an incredible, exciting innovation. And the sad thing is that point is of course not lost on Gates who - buried far under the lead - "touted its ability to push out third-party intermediaries, such as banks, while also keeping a secure and permanent record of transactions between two parties."