The Blockchain Will Do to the Financial System What the Internet Did to Media?
Interesting theory, about the influence of blockchain technologies to the financial system.
There are surely many similarities. Like the internet, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are operated by innovations in main technologies together with a new, open architecture - the Bitcoin blockchain. Such as the internet, this technology is created to be decentralized, with "layers," where each layer is specified by an interoperable open procedure on which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and support services.
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