Outlook 2020: One coin to rule them all

Plotting the dollar standard's downfall?

The hype bubble around cryptocurrency, Bitcoin and, to a lesser extent, blockchain, continued to deflate in 2019 and a healthy dose of scepticism and realism broke out.

The idea that you can come late to the crypto party, buy a handful of tokens from start-ups with nothing more to show for themselves than a white paper and make thousands of percent profit has all but vanished. Likewise, Bitcoin's sheen of invincibility has lost its lustre as question marks around the lack of scalability and influence of whale investors and mining pools controlled from China have grown. While blockchain is making headway as a technology for cutting out clunky middle parties and admin, it is increasingly seen as distributed ledger technology (DLT) v1. In other words...