Ledgers of information shower us with examples from the past. The Bitcoin blockchain is no different. Indeed, it shares many parallels with both the printing press and the Babylonian cuneiform. When we study these artifacts, we can get a glimpse of what Bitcoin as an information technology will bring. Invented in the 15th century, the printing press was an instrument which destroyed a long-held tradition of religious institutions housing so-called ‘knowledge’ of how one […]
