BITCOIN DEATHS

December 30, 2017
Bitcoin Price: $12629.81

BITCOIN—THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN OF COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH

Bitcoin has failed. The failures weren’t inevitable; there are solutions to these problems in the acdemic literature. But Bitcoin was deployed by enthusiasts who in essence let experimental code escape from a lab to the world, without thinking about the engineering issues—and now they’re stuck with it.

Professor, Columbia University


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