Bitcoin’s Next Phase: Collaboration with Financial Incumbents & Getting to Scale

This is a critical time in the brief history of bitcoin. Over the past year, some financial incumbents have moved from dismissive of bitcoin to championing it through strategic investments and partnerships. How substantial is this shift? Is this collaboration a necessary condition for bitcoin to flourish? Will the bitcoin protocol evolve from its anti-establishment beginnings into a technology that large financial institutions use to maintain their market power? This panel of experienced entrepreneurs, consultants and investors will discuss the challenge of getting to scale and the opportunity for a blockchain-driven finance ecosystem.