Whether you’re new to the concepts of blockchain and cryptocurrency or you want to learn more about their current and future applications, these TED talks will give you a greater understanding of these developing technologies and their impact on the finance industry and beyond.
1. How the Blockchain is Changing Money and Business
Speaker: Don Tapscott, Author and Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute
Tapscott describes blockchain as the second era of the internet, where we can create a more efficient financial system free from intermediaries, protect rights through immutable records, create a true sharing economy, end the remittance ripoff, recapture our virtual identities, and properly compensate content creators.
2. How the Blockchain Will Radically Transform the Economy
Speaker: Bettina Warburg, Blockchain Researcher and Co-founder of Animal Ventures
Warburg discusses how blockchain will change the way we exchange value because we can stop relying on formal institutions to lower financial uncertainty and instead use blockchain technology for identity management, transparency in asset tracking, and contract or transaction enforcement.
3. The Future of Money
Speaker: Neha Narula, Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab
In this talk, Narula follows the evolution of money from analog to digital to programmable units of value that can be mined and transferred without gatekeepers that stand in the way of innovation and struggle to inter-operate.
4. The Value Revolution: How Blockchain Will Change Money and the World
Speaker: Galia Benartzi, Technology Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Bancor
Benartzi gives a basic description of blockchain and its potential benefits for money and more (social networks, news networks, cloud systems).
5. How Crypto Could Allow More People to be Their Own Boss
Speaker: Laura Shin, Crypto Journalist and Host of the Unchained Podcast
Shin has prophesied that a shift toward more self-employment could be propelled by cryptocurrency because a decentralized financial system could lead to more leaderless, peer-to-peer business models and user-owned networks.
Additional Videos
If you want to listen to more crypto-related TED talks, check out this playlist on CoinControl’s YouTube account.
