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Last summer, my wife and I watched a program called “StartUp” on Netflix. The three-season series features the challenges faced by a cast of characters to create “GenCoin,” a new (and fictional) digital currency. As I watched the show, I wondered how my life would be different if I were a member of the engineering team driving GenCoin adoption.

While products like GenCoin originated with the purpose of providing a new way to perform financial transactions, the underlying concepts are more powerful than just currency-related tasks.…