Why Alex Tapscott quit his high-paying job to write a book about Bitcoin
A report that argued for decentralized models to help scale Bitcoin eventually became the basis for the book proposal. "In 2015, I quit my job at the tender age of 29 to do something I'd never done, which is to write a book with no idea of what would come afterward." Fast forward seven years later, Alex Tapscott is now a Canadian business author, known for his national bestseller Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World. Aside from his writing ventures, Tapscott is also the founder and CEO of digital assets investment company....
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Author Don Tapscott recently helped kick off the TED Summit in Banff, Alberta, with a lecture about blockchain technology. Released today, the video finds Tapscott reviewing points from his most recent book, "Blockchain Revolution," published earlier this year and co-authored by his son, Alex Tapscott. In remarks, Tapscott sticks to discussing the technology broadly and in terms that seek to communicate what he views as the coming wave of innovation spurred by the creation of the bitcoin blockchain and digital assets. Tapscott said: "For the first time now people everywhere....
Is Blockchain ready to sex it up? A three-day conference held at the Lake of Bays in Muskoka Canada which involved Blockchain advocates, theorists and policy experts was held between August 24th-26th, 2016. The meeting participants explored ways that the Blockchain can achieve its fullest potential. Can this group of individuals who are already deeply connected with the Blockchain change the course it is on and steer it towards a better tomorrow? CoinTelegraph spoke to Brian Behlendorf of The Hyperledger Project, Don Tapscott of The Tapscott Group, Alex Tapscott of Northwest Passage....
Tech evangelists Alex and Don Tapscott believe blockchain will “rewrite the economic power grid and the old social order.” According to tech evangelists Don and Alex Tapscott, blockchain technology will prove itself the most disruptive technology of the next decade.“We now have an Internet of value that can give us another opportunity to rewrite the economic power grid and the old social order”, said Don Tapscott.However, Tapscott senior underlines that it will take a while to transform established, multi-trillion dollars industries, such as the supply chain and financial transaction....
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....
Alex Tapscott, chief executive of Northwest Passage Ventures, a blockchain business consulting firm, has said that Thailand should embrace blockchain technology to improve quality of life, according to a report from the Bangkok Post. At a recent seminar, ‘Blockchain Revolution,’ hosted by Total Access Communication Plc (DTAC), Tapscott was a keynote speaker on the disruptive technology, which he has called the ‘second generation of the Internet.’ It is reported that around 40 percent of Thailand’s population has Internet access through their smartphones with 60 percent among the general....