NEAR Predictions: Developers Chart the Bridge to Professional Freedom

NEAR Predictions: Developers Chart the Bridge to Professional Freedom
In spring 2018, as initial coin offerings (ICOs) fueled a massive boom in crypto, the RSA Conference brought together nearly 50,000 professionals in Las Vegas to discuss the latest updates in internet security and cryptography.Each year, the event ends with a fireside chat featuring some of the industry’s earliest pioneers. In 2018, these luminaries – including Adi Shamir, instrumental in public-key cryptography; Ronald Rivest, Turing Award winner; and Whitfield Diffie, co-inventor of public-private keys – all sat down to discuss the rise of cryptocurrencies, then fondly referred to as the “other crypto.”While they all agreed there was merit in Bitcoin’s…