devcon 7 / blockchain and the economy of online information
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Blockchain and the economy of online information
Duration: 00:00:00
Speaker: Guo Liu
Type: Lightning Talk
Expertise: Beginner
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2024
Blockchain technology started as the ledger for Bitcoin and bloomed as the backbone of DeFi. As a database, blockchains are ridiculously slow and expensive. Where it has the potential to reshape the internet, is in nothing else but the economy of information. So let's take a look at the economics of the information that we consume online, and see how and where blockchain technology fits in.
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