Yearning for Proof

The real incentive for blockchains

Douglas Rushkoff
OneZero
Published in
3 min readApr 11, 2022

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Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash

I’ve made no secret of my skepticism about the blockchain as a solution for our economic woes. Yes, the economy is tilted, corrupt, and easily gamed — but the solution is likely social, not technological. While national, debt-based central currencies create terrible incentives, abstractions, and growth mandates, moving our transactions to a decentralized ledger maintained…

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Douglas Rushkoff
OneZero

Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm