The $1.7 Trillion Reason Banks Prefer Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Over Bitcoin
Banks know Blockchain is a threat to the linchpin of their economics: the customer relationship, and the $1.7 trillion they made in 2014 from global payments revenue which is a massive 40% of their annual profits. Historically the banking industry has provided three main services: financing, investment and transactions. And now they seem to dismiss Bitcoin publicly and highlight the distributed ledger or Blockchain. Do we really need a middleman? The customer relationship is the glue that binds the banking institutions together and keeps this type of profit rolling in. Although after....
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