Blockchain Revolution

FROM STOCK EXCHANGES TO BLOCK EXCHANGES
“Wall Street has woken up in a big way,”
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said Austin Hill of Blockstream. He was
speaking of the financial industry’s deep interest in blockchain technologies. Consider
Blythe Masters, one of the most powerful people on Wall Street. She built JPMorgan’s
derivatives and commodities desk into a global juggernaut and pioneered the
derivatives market. After a brief pseudoretirement, she joined a New York–based
start-up, Digital Asset Holdings, as CEO. The decision surprised many. She
understood that the