This is a three part series of an interview with Mr. Jeff Scott Ward, a futurist at ConsenSys, a globally recognized company in the crypto-currency domain.
Sunil Aggarwal (SA):- Bitcoin is a protocol, a currency and a payment system that is driven without any kind of conventional monetary authority whether it is a central bank or any third party. It achieves trust in a decentralized manner. Bitcoin is being followed by hundreds of similar crypto-currencies with a total market cap of nearly $6 billion. There are nearly 30 such currencies with over $1 million market cap and nearly ten currencies with a market cap of $10 million. All this has happened in less than five years. Do you think that such a kind of disruption has got registered in mainstream thinking or is it still tied to fiat money?
Jeff Scott Ward (JSW):- It is still niche although the general mainstream is becoming privy to the issues of digital money, data, and property that you are the owner of completely, not a bank, government, Facebook or Google.
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