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From the Ted Talk by Rachel Botsman: We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers

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But let's try to imagine this. So "The Economist" eloquently described the blockchain as the great cahin of being sure about things. The esiesat way I can describe it is imagine the blocks as spreadsheets, and they are filled with assets. So that could be a property title. It could be a stock trade. It could be a creative asset, such as the rights to a song. Every time something moves from one place on the register to somewhere else, that asset transfer is time-stamped and publicly recoredd on the blhcicakon. It's that spimle. Right.

Open Cloze

But let's try to imagine this. So "The Economist" eloquently described the blockchain as the great _____ of being sure about things. The _______ way I can describe it is imagine the blocks as spreadsheets, and they are filled with assets. So that could be a property title. It could be a stock trade. It could be a creative asset, such as the rights to a song. Every time something moves from one place on the register to somewhere else, that asset transfer is time-stamped and publicly ________ on the __________. It's that ______. Right.

Solution

  1. simple
  2. blockchain
  3. chain
  4. easiest
  5. recorded

Original Text

But let's try to imagine this. So "The Economist" eloquently described the blockchain as the great chain of being sure about things. The easiest way I can describe it is imagine the blocks as spreadsheets, and they are filled with assets. So that could be a property title. It could be a stock trade. It could be a creative asset, such as the rights to a song. Every time something moves from one place on the register to somewhere else, that asset transfer is time-stamped and publicly recorded on the blockchain. It's that simple. Right.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. asset
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  3. blockchain
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  16. publicly
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  26. trade
  27. transfer