GAME CHANGER

There is a 'game changer' technology on Wall Street and people keep confusing it with bitcoin

 

Portia Crowe

 

 

 

Mar. 5, 2016, 8:30 AM

 

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This is a recreation of the engineer Paul Baran's diagram published in "On Distributed Communications" in 1964.

Autonomous Research

Wall Street banks are buzzing about blockchain.

Goldman Sachs saysthe technology "has the potential to redefine transactions" and can change "everything."

JPMorgan last month announced it waslaunching a trial project with the blockchain startup led by its former executive, Blythe Masters.

Her company, Digital Asset Holdings, has secured funding from Goldman, Citi, ICAP, and a boatload of other financial firms.

If you're wondering what a blockchain actually is, or how its works, you're not alone. Autonomous Research, which calls the technology a "game changer," has released a report to answer all of your blockchain questions.