A year in review – Brave New Coin’s top 10 stories of 2017
2017 will likely go down in history as Bitcoin’s first real ‘hair-on-fire’ year — and there will likely be many more to come. As the wild ride winds down though, we thought a review of some of 2017’s most well-read stories might assist in putting some perspective around the events of the year — and help us prepare us for a 2018 that promises to be just as eventful.
Banking in a world of programmable assets
The Bitcoin cryptocurrency has been making headlines for several years. But in recent months the focus has widened to the broader potential of the blockchain technology that underpins itâincluding the creation of distributed consensus ledgers (DCLs). Now the focus has shifted again, to the implications blockchain brings for financial assets in general.