Nasdaq CIO Says Bitcoin Can Transform Stock Market
In a feature on WIRED, Nasdaq CIO Brad Peterson shared that bitcoin technology could transform the stock market. Nasdaq is the second-largest exchange in the world based on capitalization, next to the New York Stock Exchange. In particular, Peterson and his team are working on a system that can make use of the distributed public ledger or the blockchain to track trades in private companies. However, he is also open to the idea of implementing this on public stock exchange such as the Nasdaq. Bitcoin and Stocks. Prior to this, online retail giant Overstock has already made waves in making....
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