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Blockchain: Tree of Potential

he end of 2017 seems like a century ago. Bitcoin was trading over 20 times higher than its price at the end of 2016, and everyone was talking about a new paradigm for the world of tomorrow, one in which blockchain solves everything—from collecting garbage to tracking the source of beans in your coffee. The technology was getting so much attention that it was difficult to manage expectations; I remember all of us oscillating between skepticism

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