Introduction

DADA Collective: Lissette San Martin, Chile / Mlibty, Croatia, collaboratively created using blockchain technology, a visual conversation

“Blockchain is everything you don’t understand about technology, finance, and law mixed together,” I often joke. It is a complex technology that is still largely experimental. Many projects and work that use blockchain are either in their early stages or are being done in universities.

Blockchain is no pixie dust.

In fact, Gartner categorizes many blockchain efforts as “embryonic.” Yes, embryonic! ...

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