Don & Alex Tapscott: Blockchain's #1 use-case during Pandemics? Bitcoin and Crypto Post Recession?
Channel: Cryptonites TV
Date: 2020-04-29

Dear Crypto Community and Blockchain buddies across the globe!!

We are proud to present you with an exclusive interview with two incredible futurists and influential figures in the #Blockchain space: Don and Alex Tapscott, the co-authors of Blockchain Revolution and co-founders of the Blockchain Research Institute.

Don Tapscott is one of the most influential living theorists about business and society. He is the author of fifteen widely read books about new #technologies and new media in business and society including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy. He was named the world's most influential digital thinker by Thinkers 50.

Alex Tapscott is the founder and CEO of NextBlock Global, a digital asset company, and previously worked in investment banking in New York and Toronto. He is the author of Towards the Breaking Point: The Law and Political Emergency and Financial Services Revolution. 

Discover #Dontapscott #Alextapscott views on #blockchain, #bitcoin and #cryptocurrency:

-Blockchain solutions during pandemics
-Health data and how a self-sovereign identity could change the picture
-Making cash digital
-The impact of COVID-19 on certain industries
-How the current economic recession impacted the world of cryptocurrencies

Discover their recent reports on #bitcoin #Blockchain solutions during #pandemics:

https://bit.ly/3bZlAhK
https://bit.ly/3cZfI8A

An article in Coindesk: "Five Ways Blockchain Tech Can Help Us During This Pandemic": 

https://bit.ly/3aJsmXP

Alex Tapscott's most recent book: "Financial Services Revolution": 

https://bit.ly/35mCNQ0

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Check out some of their recent articles on the same topic:

"Stimulus Checks Are Being Spent on Bitcoin": https://bit.ly/2KKYnUA
"Bitcoin Halving Price Patterns Looks Way Different From Previous Halvings": https://bit.ly/3d46esN

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-tapscott-117638b/
Alex's famous Ted Talk: Blockchain is Eating Wall Street https://bit.ly/3bPsLch

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Highlights:

00:31 Intro
04:11 Main themes: Global pandemic & Recession
04:55 Having a digital Business Model at the BRI
06:14 The economic costs during this pandemic
07:36 The five frameworks for action
09:59 Health and the self-sovereign identity
10:36 The need for better global data
11:50 Owning your healthcare data
13:23 Lack of transparency with supply chains
13:52 Blockchain helping asset chains
15:20 Blockchain is not a silver bullet
15:48 The toilet paper meme
16:45 Going from Health to Wealth
17:20 Capital is being reinvented
18:17 The history of money
21:01 Digital Cash as the alternative
22:18 Don predicting the Renminbi will become a digital currency
25:06 How certain industries will affect our behaviour
26:25 The best Government is no Government 
28:18 The transformation of asset classes
32:01 Critics over Bitcoin 
42:00 Example with Sweatcoin
47:50 Latest updates from the BRI
50:50 Check out the courses on Coursera