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Well, I'd say that all four panelists agreed that block chain solves important problems and is here to stay. The "against" team was arguing in places against all cryptocurrency, and in others just that bitcoin would be replaced, but even they acknowledged that blockchain is an important technology.

Which reminds me of the famous Marc Andressen tweet (now deleted, apparently):

Big companies desperately hoping for blockchain without Bitcoin is exactly like 1994: Can’t we please have online without Internet?? ?

I tried to keep my own opinion out of the article, but I do think that the expectation for blockchain without cryptocurrency reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how blockchain security works. There's probably a reason why there were no technology people on the "against" side.