Three days old but still relevant. The article touches on some major points. Primarily, the current ignorance of government in regards to the application of blockchain technology, the thing that makes BTC so appealing. this year new research into alternate applications should take place in the political sphere. This will bring about regulation as well as other use cases for the tech. Most notably in how the government interacts with its citizens. This can assume many forms from improving voting security and just increasing the ease at which we vote, the way we track social security spending, basically digitizing the government role. This while take away the need for trust in local officials and replace it with trust in the programming algorithm. This can be seen as beneficial as programs rarely, they never, lie, cheat or steal, contrary to their human counterpart. with an opensource format could this be the end of political rabble rousing?
https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-rise-transaction-technology/