Bitcoin Latest in the Trend Toward Decentralization +Video
By Frank Holmes / GoldSeek
It’s been called a number of things: The sharing economy, or “shareconomy.” Peer-to-peer economy. Collaborative consumption. What all of these terms have in common is the idea of decentralization—and blockchain applications, including bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, are just the latest in a trend toward this new economic paradigm.
If it’s unclear what decentralization means, consider the following visual. You might have seen one like it before. On the left is a representation of a centralized, top-down system. Think of a traditional corporation, one that has only one CEO and one head office.
Now compare that to the next two visuals depicting decentralized and distributed systems. Instead of being top-down, their infrastructures are more collaborative, helping to prevent systemic failure, collusion and more.
This is the “sharing economy” business model that’s growing in prominence thanks to the internet and practiced by companies such as Facebook, Airbnb, Uber and more. Although these firms have one CEO and headquarters like a more traditional company, their assets are decentralized and widely distributed: Facebook’s content is collaborative among 2 billion users worldwide. Airbnb and Uber’s hotels and cabs are privately owned. Jack Ma’s Alibaba has no inventory of its own, relying instead on a decentralized network of retailers and manufacturers.
Blockchain, and bitcoin specifically, is the logical conclusion to this trend. Bitcoin is completely open-source and peer-to-peer. No one owns it. Unlike fiat currencies, it’s not controlled or regulated by a central authority. This is possible only through the power of blockchain, the decentralized, unmodifiable electronic ledger that records all activity across the entire system.
We’re in the very early stages of this new paradigm, but already much is expected. Mastercard believes the sharing economy will inevitably graduate beyond social media and accommodations, spreading “into new sectors, including insurance, utilities, health and social care.” And UBS estimates that by 2027, blockchain could add between $300 and $400 billion of annual economic value to the global economy.
Indeed, something interesting is happening!
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Bitcoin is dead.
If B/c keeps going down they will rename it SHITCOIN. This all started when the FED attacked it with the futures market
Someone certainly poisoned the well with the addition of bitcoin futures. The futures market on insurance was to blame for the 2008 crash with AIG etc. Someone knew that and put it in there like it was candy at the candy store… speculation was nice for a minute.
Bitcoin bypasses the federal Reserve’s precious central banks. Transactions are not traceable or taxable. and the central banks don’t get one drop of your life’s blood. I don’t own Bitcoin and have never used it but I can see why it strikes terror in the C/B’s and the federal Reserve’s hearts.
This article hits it… The government needs to be decentralized…. boom i said it:) Everything should be this way.. imagine when this continent was first put together. There were decentralized services from different skilled people tailors, cobblers, smiths etc. That has all been monopolized and few people even can do those things especially in america. Mass manufacturing has been the downfall of man since its inception. A decentralized economy could put money into everyones pocket instead of just one corporation etc. Sad that these super corps are using people to make money and the dopes that use it just get sucked dry and abused.