Visions of Blockchain Magazine S01E02 | Page 59

Megaphone Blockchain Commons Corporations and banks are pursuing private blockchains because they can control the data and maintain proprietary closed-source code. This strategy will definitely work in their favor for quite some time, but ultimately information wants to be free. The network ef- fects of an open, public blockchain-based protocol will inevitably outpace any private systems. The corporate mindset of today is conditioned to think within the confi- nes of scarcity and controlling owner- ship models. This makes them an easy target to disrupt.