Visions of Blockchain Magazine S01E04 | Page 24

Megaphone The market cap of cryptocurrencies is about half a trillion, which is tiny com- pared to other comparable asset classes, but when it does mature, we can expect significantly more stable prices, and cryptocurrencies adopted as a depen- dable mechanism of value storage and exchange on par with fiat currencies. Eventually, people will make the deci- sion that they trust algorithmic techno- logies more than human institutions. Hyperinflation in Germany during the Weimar Republic To continue onto applications of my thesis, it is also immoral that my fa- mily, among others, has to worry abo- ut the government of India not en- forcing the property rights entitling us ownership of our own land, by di- splaying fake deeds and re-written hi- stories. Thus making land titles on the blockchain, which provide an unalte- rable history of ownership, powerful. It is immoral that gigantic data centers accumulate unfathomable amounts of data about our daily lives without us knowing, and then turn around and give that data away to veiled organizations destroying any privacy we think we may have. That is what makes self sovereignty of our identity and data through distribu- ted systems so societally transformati- ve. This is just to illustrate the few most palpable examples and the necessity of looking towards projects that have a real moral raison d’être behind them when considering an investment. Tho- se, and infrastructure level projects that make Blockchain technologies more mature and usable — be it through pri- vacy, scalability, identity, or governan- ce. These are the most likely to survi- ve the in-coming market correction.