Is Blockchain Ready for Primetime?
Like all relatively recent innovations, blockchain networks have suffered from plenty of hype, scandal, and mistrust. But with the technology having demonstrated its functionality, robustness, and utility, it now just needs regulatory standardization and safeguards to bring the wider public on board.
CAMBRIDGE – As the crypto winter thaws, and financial institutions renew their interest in digital assets, an old debate has re-emerged over whether blockchain is truly a “trust machine,” as The Economist described it in 2015.