SPECIAL: inside the cryptocurrency craze

Published: Oct. 21, 2017, 5:30 p.m.

The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson talks to cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and investors about the boom in initial coin offerings, or ICO\u2019s, (1:45), why the underlying technology may be \u201cbigger than the Internet\u201d (2:45), living in an age of distrust (5:30), soaring digital currency values (6:30), how a former rapper is trying to get in on the craze (7:15), why most currencies are like Disney Dollars (9:50), the lack of regulation (12:25), the company trying to become the Goldmans Sachs of crypto (15:00), the industry\u2019s links to gaming (17:40), the importance of blockchain (21:15), monetising human knowledge (23:00), limits to cryptographic security (27:40), North Korea\u2019s hacking (29:45), blockchain\u2019s electricity problem (31:25) and the future of everything (32:30).


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