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Super 8
(Photo courtesy of Verso Books) 1 Blockchain If a group of computer scientists and financial technicians are right, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto’s most-celebrated creation may not be a peer-to-peer technology that lets you buy online contraband — Bitcoin — but rather its underlying invention. The blockchain is a shared transaction database that permits verification without a centralized authority, and VC funds such as Union Square Ventures are already predicting the computer science breakthrough will revolutionize everything from banking to voting to the law. 2 You Won’t Remember Dying Recorded in a single day in 1971, this under-known deep cut from the psych-rock vaults was the […]
