Politico April 10, 2024
By Derek Robertson

If blockchain evangelists think the technology is poised to transform the world, some are fairly self-aware of the extent to which the average person still doesn’t quite understand what it does.

One of them is Chris Dixon, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and one of the technology’s biggest boosters. In “Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet,” published in January by Random House, Dixon explains the blockchain technology behind cryptocurrency and lays out a case that despite some high-profile scandals (ahem, FTX), it can still preserve the best parts of the internet.

But the book isn’t just a sustained defense from one of blockchain’s biggest fans: It’s a case for how the technology could rebuild the economic...

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