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Author of best seller "blockchain revolution", Alex share in this talk about how the blockchain the technology behind bitcoin Is changing money, business, and the world. Alex Tapscott is the CEO and Founder of Northwest Passage Ventures, a consulting firm focused on early-stage, high growth companies in the Canadian and U.S. Capital markets. His is also co-author, with Don Tapscott, of the new book Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World (Portfolio / Penguin Random House 2016). Alex was Director of Institutional Equity Sales at Canaccord Genuity Inc. from 2008 to 2015. He managed a diverse client base of value, growth, long/short equity, merger-arbitrage and activist investors, including many of the largest asset managers in Canada and some of the largest hedge funds in New York. A graduate of Amherst College and a CFA Charterholder, Alex serves as a research fellow for the Global Solutions Network (GSN) program at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Business in Toronto and sits on the board of CAMH Engage, a young leadership counci

Richie Etwaru, discusses the opportunity and implications of blockchain as a paradigm to slow/chose the expanding trust gap in commerce. He unpacks blockchain to a level of simplicity to be consumed by those that are just starting to understand and explore the paradigm. He lays out a current state of commerce, suggesting that every company is currently at risk of being disrupted or incurring severe strain from a blockchain version of itself. Professionally, Richie Etwaru is a c-level at a Fortune 500 Company, an author, the owner of international patents, the founder of multiple ventures, an experienced keynote speaker, an angel investor, a member of advisory boards, and a recognized thought leader in the area of digital, technology, and design. Specific to this TEDx talk, Richie is an adjunct professor of blockchain management at Syracuse University in New York, he has delivered over 100 blockchain keynotes across the world, he has written well read blockchain blogs, he has been interviewed on blockchain in online TV shows, and has advised governments and venture funds on blockchain opportunities.

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I wonder whats being done in the field of cryptography so that systems are not susceptible to what quantum computers are capable of.

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Look at those mysterious flames coming off that rock!!

Imagine how big it was when it hit earth's atmosphere.

That thing could have flying around the universe for billions of years..... incredible when you think about it.

Out of this world!

I never knew that they formed two countries BECAUSE of their religions. But it makes sense.

To this day they are fighting on the border.

while the west argues over healthcare

i was going to ask what it ate.... but then thought...

whatever it wanted

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huge!

@TrueTomHarley Kodak was a really good example.

I hadn't heard about the ETF shares before though. How would I research that further?

There should be a non-capped 10% Flat Tax in the USA on everyone including corporations.

The US National debt would disappear and Social Security would be funded.

Inequality would change course rather quickly and the middle class would reappear.

Once the national debt is gone... then we should peg the US dollar back to gold to control the spending habits of our politicians.

Not that I am a fan of personal income taxes. I would prefer consumption taxes over income taxes. (not sure how I feel about both existing simultaneously)

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Sales taxes are regressive and hit the poorest the hardest. They should be abolished.

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Real Estate Taxes seem a normal course of business for govt. 

To do all this of course you should and probably would have to eventually "End the Fed"

What do you think?

The safer route might be to just go with an ETF?