> With 89 blockchain patents granted globally with an additional 285 blockchain applications pending worldwide, we already have one of the payments industry’s biggest blockchain patent portfolios to draw from to make these projects successful.
People were sold the crypto vision with decentralization as the key idea which heralded the end of an outdated an inefficient centralized system. Now it looks like the momentum behind that movement has been co-opted by those who see the potential to transform it into one which puts a whole lot more power into the hands of the brokers.
It's funny how the support of a group with one ideology has given credibility to the polar opposite ideology for people with very different objectives and principles.
People were sold the crypto vision with decentralization as the key idea which heralded the end of an outdated an inefficient centralized system. Now it looks like the momentum behind that movement has been co-opted by those who see the potential to transform it into one which puts a whole lot more power into the hands of the brokers.
It's funny how the support of a group with one ideology has given credibility to the polar opposite ideology for people with very different objectives and principles.