"Blockchain Is Awful" It’s not easy to weed through all the crypto-fluff, but there are some sober-minded experts we respect in this field. One is Alex Thorn, the Head of Firmwide Research for Galaxy Digital. Alex has nuanced perspective. He flat out says, “Blockchain is awful” – at least for many of the applications for which it is hyped. He’s a skeptic that it gains traction in many of the hoped-for functions. There are, however, applications and use cases where blockchain