"If you would have explained Uber or Lyft five years ago, you would have had to explain it as digital hitchhiking, because that's what it was."
That analogy, according to newly appointed MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Brian Forde, illustrates where bitcoin and the blockchain are today – struggling for a more colloquial definition that may only come when the technology delivers a consumer experience that communicates its societal value.
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http://www.coindesk.com/mit-digital-currency-brian-forde-bitcoin-mainstream/
