A look into the first and best-known application of the blockchain: bitcoin, from its nature, its source of value, the reasons behind price fluctuation, to diverging policies across countries.
What went wrong when "Bitcoin Jesus" gave up on what he once advocated? Bitcoin's initial design created a dilemma between efficiency and security. Each "fork," or splitting protocols, marked a disagreement among interested parties.
Bitcoin is massively disruptive and influential, however, the real potential and opportunity is the underlying technology of blockchain. The blockchain technology brings the internet of information to the second era of the Internet.
Since people's growing interest in blockchain applications has gone beyond cryptocurrency, 19-years-old Vitalik Buterin created Ethereum in 2013 for people in general to build a decentralized application.
The blockchain industry has only completed its first ten years in existence and the people and the industry have experienced ups and downs that other industries may only experience throughout a millennia.
