Adam Lashinsky
Adam Lashinsky 2018年4月18日
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The blockchain and cryptocurrencies might be a big thing. Maybe. Some day. If a lot of things go right.
Don’t take my skeptical word for it, though. That’s more or less the conclusion of one of the field’s true believers, Adam Ludwin, the articulate founder of technology company Chain. (Blockchain.com wasn’t available, he says.) I interviewed Ludwin Tuesday night in San Francisco at a well-attended walk-up dinner for July’s Brainstorm Tech conference.
If the nascent field were populated exclusively by people like Ludwin there’d be far less hype. But that’s not how these things work. He freely admits there is ample noise but also a discernible signal. A decentralized system for managing software applications and for trading money free of government control (read: censorship) has much promise. The problem is that it’s more promise than current value, even less so than was evident in the fledgling “Internet” a generation ago. (Read Jonathan Vanian’s write-up here, where you also can watch the video, as well as Andrew Nusca’s review in today’s CEO Daily.)
Ludwin’s thesis is that we’d be a whole lot less hot and bothered about the blockchain, a word he thinks has lost most of its meaning amidst the hoo-hah, if it didn’t involve money. Because it does it’s easy to get people’s attention—and mindless investment dollars.
Incidentally, Ludwin is a sought-after speaker on this topic because last October he wrote a long memo taking to task cryptocurrency troglodyte Jamie Dimon. Ludwin says Dimon graciously reached out to meet, which the two did in Davos in January. And Ludwin lavished praise on crypto projects J.P. Morgan Chase (jpm) has pursued since.
That’s near proof something will come of this. Maybe. Some day. If a lot of things go right.
这篇文章首次出现在《财富》每日科技快报上。要把它每天送到你的收件箱，在这里注册。blockchain cryptocurrencies可能是一个很大的事情。也许吧.有一天。如果很多事情都是正确的。不过，不要拿我的怀疑词来形容它。这或多或少是一场真正的信徒，Adam Ludwin的结论，阐明创办科技公司的链。（blockchain.com不可用，他说。）我采访卢德威星期二晚上在三藩参加走晚餐七月举办的科技头脑风暴大会。如果这个领域被填充完全由像Ludwin这样的人会有更少的炒作。但这并不是这些事情的运作方式。他坦然承认有充足的噪音，但也有明显的信号。一个分散的系统，用于管理软件应用程序和无政府控制的货币交易（阅读：审查）有很大的希望。问题在于，它比目前的价值要多得多，甚至比一代人刚刚起步的“互联网”所能看到的还要少。（读Jonathan Vanian的写在这里，你还可以观看视频，以及Andrew Nusca的评论在今天的首席执行官日报。）卢德威的论点是，我们是一个整体少了很多烦恼的blockchain，一句话他认为已经失去了它的意义在呼哈，如果它不涉及金钱。因为它很容易吸引人们的注意力和无意识的投资美元。顺便说一句，Ludwin是个受欢迎的演讲者对这个话题是因为去年十月他写了一封很长的备忘录，以任务的cryptocurrency穴居人杰米·戴蒙后。Ludwin说，戴蒙大方地伸出手来满足，这两人于一月在达沃斯。和卢德威大加赞扬加密项目摩根大通（JPM）一直以来。这几乎可以证明这会有什么结果。也许吧.有一天。如果很多事情都是正确的。
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