This Super Bowl season, bitcoin has felt like the Canadian Football Association to the blockchain’s NFL. Which is why it is so interesting that this week there were two fundraising rounds — including one of the largest ever — in bitcoin, even as non-bitcoin blockchains continue to cross milestone after milestone.
But what the two investment rounds really mean is that the choice between bitcoin’s blockchain with the robustness provided by a global network of millions of users, and the privacy of so-called "permissioned ledgers" may be a false dilemma. Those new-fangled upstarts with a fraction of the users and still developing technology shouldn’t take for granted the granddaddy of them all. Bitcoin’s blockchain is here to stay.
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