The future of finance

Looking back in history, technology has changed the world in profound ways. From the steam engine, to computers, to the Internet, we have seen amazing advances in how we can innovate through technology. In line with the previous advances of technology, Bitcoin has the potential to bring the same scale of change to finance.

Since its launch, just months after the financial crises of 2008, Bitcoin has challenged the way we look at money and finance. Consequently, our previous notions of relying on centralized institutions to issue, store, and transfer money are now questionable.

On the basis of what we've seen from the implementation of new technologies since the industrial revolution, many of our financial institutions face ...

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