David Green is an editor at The News Lens. He covers a lot of stuff, but is most comfortable trying to work out if a robot will come for his job before a government pays for retraining or offers basic income.

The News Lens
Date: 2018/05/23
By: David Green 

Block Guardian is a bi-weekly column from The News Lens and Blockcamp offering news and insight on crypto and token economics from Taiwan.

Picture Taiwan’s blockchain and cryptocurrency community as a sleek locomotive, the Crypto Express, steaming toward an end stop known as “Definitive Regulation.”

Few on board are clear who is driving the train, and none have ever visited their fabled destination, but most are content to reside in their carriages, gambling and playing dice, building the kind of rapport that often forms among travelers thrown together on long journeys.

The carriages soon become a law unto themselves, with the world-weary advising the less experienced as to where best to eat, who to avoid, and how to judge a good bottle of vodka without having to open it.

On a parallel track, the Taiwan Sleeper inches into view – a distinctly less snazzy looking vehicle, a gray-bodied iron-horse staffed by stiff-collared apparatchiks apparently fixated on a single task – counting enormous piles of money.    [FULL  STORY]