Daily Archives: February 22, 2016

Smart Contracts May Create Significant Innovative Disruption

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Commerce generally operates on a centralized model where counterparties transact with each other by means of trusted intermediaries such as financial institutions that serve as a conduit for parties in financial transactions, retailers that purchase goods from manufacturers and sell them to consumers, and websites/mobile apps like eBay, Uber and Airbnb that facilitate the purchase of goods or engagement of services to be provided by third parties. The centralized model creates dependence on the intermediaries and adds costs to each transaction to compensate them for their involvement. Smart contracts, however, can help reduce reliance on centralized systems, avoid the costs of using intermediaries and provide other benefits.

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Roman Reigns Fastlane Hate, Explained Through Video Games

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I’ve only recently gotten back into wrestling, something I watched when I was younger, when the WWE was still the WWF, and I practiced my People’s Eyebrow in the bathroom mirror every day. But recently, I found that a number of games journalists I follow on Twitter were into the modern wrestling scene, and I decided to give it another shot. As such, I’ve been following along with the soap opera storylines for about a year now, including last night at the PPV Fastlane, which had Roman Reigns propelling himself to victory over Brock Lesnar and Dean Ambrose, in order to face Triple H for the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania.

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