The blockchain grifters have driven Nouriel Roubini into ...

The blockchain grifters have driven Nouriel Roubini into a state in which he is no longer his normal calm reasoned self: Nouriel Roubini*: The Big Blockchain Lie: "In cases where distributed-ledger technologies ��� so-called enterprise DLT ��� are actually being used, they have nothing to do with blockchain. They are private, centralized, and recorded on just a few controlled ledgers. They require permission for access...

...Which is granted to qualified individuals. And, perhaps most important, they are based on trusted authorities that have established their credibility over time. All of which is to say, these are ���blockchains��� in name only. It is telling that all ���decentralized��� blockchains end up being centralized, permissioned databases when they are actually put into use. As such, blockchain has not even improved upon the standard electronic spreadsheet, which was invented in 1979. No serious institution would ever allow its transactions to be verified by an anonymous cartel operating from the shadows of the world���s authoritarian kleptocracies. So it is no surprise that whenever ���blockchain��� has been piloted in a traditional setting, it has either been thrown in the trash bin or turned into a private permissioned database that is nothing more than an Excel spreadsheet or a database with a misleading name...

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