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This doesn't seem to cover any new ground or engage with anything interesting outside of finance. Is the author telling all of these researchers (Stanford, MIT, Columbia, etc) that there is nothing interesting or new in blockchain?

https://adacrunch.medium.com/cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-r...

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I am saying there's nothing (or very little) interesting or novel in blockchain, yes. I mean that's literally in the article.

a huge ecosystem built on what is in reality a simple data structure which is neither particularly novel nor interesting

That's just ignorant of the large amount of interesting blockchain-related ideas and research going on (again, most of which you don't mention in the article).

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