As we strategy twenty years since Satoshi’s landmark white paper, we nonetheless know little or no about this enigmatic creator’s politics or identification (though that has not stopped some from guessing). However we perceive that this particular person (or individuals) created an innovation – a expertise spinoff of one other expertise, encryption. As we’ve seen repeatedly, expertise can be utilized for good or unhealthy. It may possibly create jobs or destroy them. It may possibly hurt the atmosphere or bolster efforts to guard it. The artwork of sound policymaking is weighing the nice and unhealthy, dangers and rewards, and placing insurance policies that promote the frequent good in place.