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It would also be great to read about these technologies from a source without the bias of being personally invested in them. It seems impossible to find a writer with any kind of expertise in this field who isn't also personally betting on it's success.

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As a crypto fan, I try to pay close attention to the critics. Its tough to find someone who understands the tech and doesn't think it has some chance of success.

Having said that, Tim Swanson has some good critiques of bitcoin/blockchain. http://www.ofnumbers.com/ He does work for R3, the banking consortium which isn't creating blockchain technology, but distributed ledger technology.

I wrote this: https://hackernoon.com/dont-use-a-blockchain-unless-you-need...

(But then I'm biased against some of these tokens — I actively short them.)

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