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“Blockchain is a ‘we’ technology, not a ‘me’ technology,” Michael Casey, senior advisor to the Digital Currency Initiative, told MIT Management Sloan School’s 2019 Business of Blockchain conference this week.
“The reason it’s taking such a long time is not necessarily a technical problem,” he explained. “It is a cultural and structural challenge getting different non-trusting parties to work together.”
The conference assessed that blockchain’s best application at the moment is in the supply chain.
MIT explained: “As a shared digital ledger that creates an ...
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