How Bitcoin Disrupts Telecommunications?
The Blockchain has begun to disrupt not only the financial sector, but also the telecommunications sector. Looking to discover how the Blockchain might influence the sector, CoinTelegraph interviewed Blockchain developers, Jonathan Nelson and Derick Smith, the telecommunication expert, Lee Gibson Grant, and the businessman, Stephen Rowlison. Monopolies are in danger. Cointelegraph reached out to Jonathan Nelson, a developer at Butterfly Labs. CT: Are mobile operators in an ideal position to embrace Blockchain technology? “Disruptive innovation in Blockchain applications from the....
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