Blockchain and the Middleman

About this talk: Transactions have always involved middlemen. They establish trust—but also bring extra cost, complexity, and potential for error. Blockchain provides a secure, fast, transparent, and error-free digital record of the history of transactions, and so has the potential to replace many intermediaries. Will it?

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TED@BCG is a multi-year collaboration with touch points across the TED ecosystem. The partnership with The Boston Consulting Group includes master classes and workshops to exchange expertise at TED conferences, organizational professional development in leadership and public speaking, video content to amplify BCG’s untapped ideas and features a TED-curated banner event with a diverse group of speakers from across The Boston Consulting Group community. The event gathers leaders from business, academia and society who have been at the forefront of change and transformation.

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