
Is #blockchain finally shedding its image of "The Wild West of Technology" within the #banking and #financialservices industry?
In his extremely colourful article based on moderating a session at Sibos with Co-Pierre Georg, Director at the Frankfurt School Blockchain Centre, (and stepping into the shoes of Rita Martins, Head of Products Ecosystem, Digital Assets at London Stock Exchange Group, who unfortunately couldn't make it due to travel troubles), Rik paints a picture of the evolution of blockchain over the years:
From a dusty, lawless frontier where coders were gold diggers and algorithms their pickaxes, to blockchain being the plumbing of a modern civilisation.
In this episode, Andrew digs into the stories behind the story (and it is a particularly good story) published here.
While most of his scepticism around #cryptocurrency remains, Andrew felt positively buoyant about the future of blockchain.
Where do you sit on the spectrum?