Anti-establishment wave to help push blockchain into real world in 2017


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 11 Jan 2017

Revolutionary technology: Blockchain allows the web-based bitcoin currency to function.

LONDON/NEW YORK:  A wave of anti-establishment sentiment sweeping the Western world is likely to help push blockchain – the technology that gave birth to the renegade digital currency bitcoin – out of cyberspace and into the real world in 2017.

Blockchain, which allows the web-based currency to function, has attracted some big backers who have risen to prominence partly because of their rejection of traditional power structures – like bitcoin itself.

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