Matt Levine, Columnist

Blockchain Mania and MiFID II

Also the Volcker Rule, Uber, whistleblowers, pranksters and unicorns.

August 23, 2017 at 9:40 AM EDT

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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Fortune magazine's new cover says "Blockchain Mania!," and the cover story's URL slug is "bitcoin-ethereum-blockchain-cryptocurrency," so you know that the era of blockchain blockchain blockchain is here. That story takes a sort of "bitcoin bad blockchain good" line, although the current line is more like "initial coin offerings bad, blockchain good":

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