‘Blockchain Revolution’ Comes to Wall Street at Nasdaq Event

‘Blockchain Revolution’ Comes to Wall Street at Nasdaq Event

The father and son authors of the new book "Blockchain Revolution" took to the stage this morning where Nasdaq opens and closes its market to discuss their latest work. Kicking off a panel discussion with several industry leaders, Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott took turns discussing how the management structure of some of those very same companies could be disrupted by distributed ledger technologies like blockchain. The elder Tapscott set the stage for the conversation with a point-by-point explanation of why he believes blockchains can do to the management structure of....


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