NYT: Blockchain like original internet, has "radical" possibilities

• "Like the original internet itself, the blockchain is an idea with radical — almost communitarian — possibilities that at the same time has attracted some of the most frivolous and regressive appetites of capitalism."
• "We have learned enough from this history to support the hypothesis that open works better than closed, ... But we don’t have an easy route back to the open-protocol era."
• "Right now, the only real hope for a revival of the open-protocol ethos lies in the blockchain."

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