Hacker Noon June 20, 2019
Blockchain, since its inception in 2008, remained largely unnoticed by the masses till 2017. The principles that it worked on, the financial reliability, security and privacy it provided was largely overlooked over the prospect of getting rich by cryptocurrencies.
With echoes of ‘digital gold’ and blockchain tokens being the next currency in the backdrop, the hype of a seemingly richer future kept building up for investors and traders. More and more people started hanging on to every word they could find on Blockchain on the news. This accelerating joyride ended in a painful crash, both figuratively and literally when in January 2018, the Crypto Winter happened.
With this seemingly haunting event in the past, the expectation from blockchain in general...