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Background: That guy makes money with private blockchain tech.
by k__ 5y ago
Background: That guy makes money with private blockchain tech.
- otterley 5y agoBlockchains are useful for things other than cryptocurrencies. And it's not a conflict of interest to say you don't think blockchains should be used for currencies, much like it's not a conflict of interest for the inventor of dynamite to say he doesn't think dynamite should be used to blow people up. (Google "Nobel Prize".)
- yunohn 5y agoCould you source this? What kind of blockchain tech?
- angio 5y agoHe's the CTO at Adjoint, see for example this article about their tech https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/adjoint-distributed-ledger-technology-and-smart-contracts-for-real-world-finance-72a5cd83e063 https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/adjoint-distri...
- yunohn 5y agoSeems only tangentially related to cryptocurrency - but I don’t understand why his arguments in the post are rendered invalid?
- angio 5y agoPublic blockchains are a threat to private blockchains and so he has a conflict of interest. He should disclose that. He's like the CEO of WeWork writing against remote work.
- yunohn 5y agoWeWork is co-working spaces, they embrace hybrid WFH. But regardless, he’s not against “public blockchains”, he’s against cryptocurrencies. They’re not the same thing, as a crypto enthusiast would agree.