Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

The Future of the Web Looks a Lot Like Bitcoin Forget the currency; it's the protocol behind it that matters. It will mutate and take over everything we do (or could one day do) on the Web. We'll vote with it, tweet with it, entrust our most valuable possessions to it, run our businesses on it, even manage the Web itself using it. You've been warned.

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