Can Ethereum Restore Online Freedom Transform the Internet?By Reason TV ConsenSys, which employs 68 people in nine countries, is developing applications to run on this ambitious new computing platform. On Ethereum, the same types of services offered by companies like Facebook, Google, Ebay, and Amazon, will be provided instead by computers distributed around the globe. But how does Ethereum bring together these scattered nodes into one network? By using the groundbreaking organizational system known as a blockchain, which The Economist has aptly dubbed the trust machine. Its the same technology that makes possible peer-to-peer exchange of Bitcoins without a bank keeping track of who owns what. Ethereum is controlled by a different kind of blockchain thats specifically designed to keep this decentralized network in sync, forming one powerful global computer that could one day match the capabilities of a Facebook or a Google. Visit Reason.com Lessons learned: Who is Lubin? Who funded ConsenSys? 