Wall St. Veteran Tone Vays: 90% of Blockchain Companies are ‘Meaningless’

Wall St. Veteran Tone Vays: 90% of Blockchain Companies are ‘Meaningless’

Bitcoin.com spoke with Wall Street veteran and author of the LibertyLifeTrail blog, Tone Vays, on the recent Panama Papers leak, using Bitcoin as a safe haven, and why he believes 90% of blockchain companies right now are “meaningless.” With 10-years experience on Wall Street in the field of Risk Analysis and Trading, Vays is now fully committed to the....


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