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Building a Better Bitcoin

Harvard Business Review

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , a 2013 dollar has one-tenth the purchasing power of the 1950 version. Instead, supply is determined once and for all by artificially-arranged resource constraints.". The question, really, is whether you can pick the right "resource constraints" ahead of time.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash.