Say the Big, Bad ‘B’ Word: Bitcoin and the Internet of MoneyIt has been a bit amusing watching as intellectuals and “thought leaders,” financial industry executives, technologists and even the media itself have fallen in love with “the blockchain,” “distributed ledgers” and other phrases to talk about the innovation happening in how trust and value exchange work on the Internet.
Notably absent from this high-minded and purportedly insightful thinking is reference to bitcoin, the actual open platform that distributes trust and provides a highly secure ledger to exchange value around the world.
https://recode.net/2015/11/09/say-the-big-bad-b-word-bitcoin-and-the-internet-of-money/