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Why are cryptocurrencies interesting? — Patrick McCorry

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If there is a single takeaway from this article, then it should be that the field of cryptocurrencies is reviving the boring topic of database technology. We have always assumed the need to blindly trust an authority to manage and protect a database. But cryptocurrency has led to a paradigm shift as our community works on the pursuit to build a database that anyone can read, write and protect.

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