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How Cryptocurrency Can Solve the Worlds Biggest Problems Today

Chris Herd
3 min readMar 11, 2019

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The world has a huge problem.

In previous generations, the worlds smartest people dedicated their lives to solving the most difficult problems affecting the world.

  • Steam engine led to the industrial revolution
  • the Atomic bomb led to the end of world war two
  • aviation made the world smaller
  • the internet enabled things were impossible
  • immunization eradicated innumerable diseases
  • the space race took us to the moon

Today, the smartest people in the world fuss over the color of like buttons on social media to make sure you click it more. They seek to develop new platforms which drain your attention in return for advertising dollars.

The smartest people in the world are working on serving the corporate greed we have increasingly grown to call master. AI may not be here yet, but it is an increasing thought in my head that large multi-national corporation effectively operates as if it is. Shareholder interest, benefits, and profits stand above what’s best for humanity.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain emerged as a decentralized remedy to it all. For the most ambitious goals for what the internet could enable to emerge, the…

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Chris Herd
Chris Herd

Written by Chris Herd

CEO / Founder / Coach @FirstbaseHQ Empowering people to work in their lives not live at work ✌️✌

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