John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The suits revolve around antitrust law, so the debate will now be dominated by whether or not the government can prove its case in court. And again, thanks to COVID, marketers were not exactly focused on public ledgers and blockchain in 2020. ” Google’s problems with both public perception (hello, three government lawsuits!)

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Here we go: Prediction #1: Crypto/blockchain dies as a major story. Cast yourself back to late 2017 when Bitcoin was pushing $20,000 and the entire tech sector was obsessed with blockchain everything. 2018 is a year of hard work on the problems that have kept blockchain from becoming what most of us believe it can truly become.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 1, 2021

Candidates include biotech and bioinformatics (the core technologies behind the COVID vaccine), blockchain (though I’m certain bitcoin will have at least one of its several crashes this year), and lithium batteries (giving us hope on climate change and driving my otherwise random prediction on gas-powered cars, below). 2005 Predictions.

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