Ethereum could create new opportunities for value creation and entrepreneurship. “Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center,” he said. “Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.” Blockchain doesn’t eliminate jobs so much as it changes the definition of work. Who will suffer from this great upheaval? “I suspect and hope the casualties will be lawyers earning half a million dollars a year more than anyone else.”6 So
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