Blockchain Future: A Report From “The Centre Of The Revolution”
The quote “the centre of the revolution” was very appropriate for Money2020 Europe, and the insight I gathered into the future of finance was obviously centred on the Blockchain. There wasn’t a single company there I spoke to who hadn’t heard of or were monitoring the distributed ledger in one way or another, and they all seemed to have plans to implement it in the future although the timeframes varied from business to business. Interestingly, many of the banking platform companies didn’t seem to understand how the Blockchain actually worked and were of the opinion that bitcoin was....
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