Contrary to mainstream thinking that this new technology is unregulated, it’s really quite the opposite. These systems apply the strictest of rules under highly deterministic and predictable models that are regulated through mathematics. In the future, industry will be regulated not just by institutions and committees but by algorithms and mathematics. The new technology will gradually out-regulate the regulators and, in many cases, make them obsolete because the new system offers more certainty. Antonopoulos explains that “the opposite of authoritarianism is not chaos, but autonomy.”

雖然許多公鏈開發項目方自稱為「第三代區塊鏈系統」，但本質上只是「更快的以太坊」，內部也沒有任何落地的應用出現，僅僅是個空轉的伺服器群，這背後的隱憂是，一旦以太坊完成 POS 實作，解決了 TPS 的交易處理性能問題，可滿足一定程度的商用場景，這些新公鏈的開發者與使用者將一哄而散，重新回到市占率最高的以太坊進行開發。

Blockstream announced through a press release that they have added a fifth satellite to their network. Their broadcast can now reach most of the world. Their previous satellite formation allowed them to share their blockchain broadcasts to most of North and South America, Europe and Africa. Company’s fifth satellite allows them to reach the Asia-Pacific region, including China, India, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Australia.