Goldman Sachs Talks

Alex Tapscott, The Blockchain Revolution

Most commonly known as the primary innovation behind bitcoin, blockchain technology is poised to revolutionize the financial industry and beyond. Alex Tapscott, co-author of Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business and the World, discusses how the global opportunities for blockchain technology are vast and diverse.

On the revolutionary properties of blockchain: “With blockchain you have a new platform for the movement of value based on a distributed ledger…like a giant global database that runs on every computer in the world. It is accessible to everyone...and trust is not established by a third party, but rather [through] mass collaboration and clever code.”