Why Blockchain Will Be An Engine For Inclusion
And Entrepreneurs Worldwide
We are witnessing a shift from the Internet of information to the Internet of value — blockchain. Blockchain will positively impact the disenfranchised by being a catalyst for financial, racial and gender inclusion.
Since Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web in 1989, the Internet has enabled businesses and people to share information in almost-unimaginable ways. However, in today’s Internet of information, you can’t store or transact value without a powerful intermediary. Intermediaries, like banks or governments, are slow, threaten privacy and exclude large groups of people they can’t profit from. Trust, transparency and anonymity has never been needed more than now. Blockchain’s peer-to-peer platform will work for people in ways the internet never could.
“This is it. This is the thing we’ve been waiting for. The distributed trust network the internet always needed and never had.” — Marc Andreessen, Cofounder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz
Blockchain, a distributed ledger, is immutable, secure and decentralized across computers all over the world. The blockchain represents a network consensus…