We sat down with CoLab’s Joe Gerber and Gavin McDermott to talk about the distributed web and blockchains and why it's important to experiment with this emerging technology. Many people see blockchain technology as bitcoin, but as Joe and Gavin discuss, bitcoin is just the tip of the spear and one small piece of a larger movement of blockchain technology and the distributed web.

Blockchain and Distributed Web 101

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Blockchain and Distributed Web 101

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