Discussions around blockchain technology often place smart contracts at the center of everything. But recently, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared a slightly different way of looking at things. While reflecting on conversations that happened during the Real World Crypto conference and some related side events, Buterin said the experience helped him think more clearly about a simple question: what are blockchains actually for? For many people in the industry, the instinct is to start with Ethereum itself and then search for places where the technology can be applied. But Buterin says he has recently been thinking about the problem from
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