[2015-03-09] Wired: Bitcoin May Be What Gets Us Real Net Neutrality

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Bitcoin May Be What Gets Us Real Net Neutrality

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/opinion-bitcoin-may-gets-us-real-net-neutrality/

Last-mile bandwidth sits largely unused because people perceive only two possibilities: opening the connection to everyone but losing privacy and getting stuck with the check, or locking down the last mile so that only they can use it.

Micropayments and encryption could provide a way out from this trade-off. Efficient micropayments, however, have not been possible before the invention of Bitcoin.