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How social forces could drive blockchain demand

O'Reilly

That is why it’s critical to examine broader social forces when trying to understand how quickly a new technology will be adopted—and to understand why blockchain technology is building momentum at this particularly potent time. A key driver: there was nothing in the internet’s original specs to code direct trust between two participants.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Web3 has similarly progressed through “basic blockchain and cryptocurrency tokens” to “decentralized finance” to “NFTs as loyalty cards.” ” Each step has been a twist on “what if we could write code to interact with a tamper-resistant ledger in real-time?”