According to Professor Bill Maurer, a cultural anthropologist and director of the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion at UC Irvine, the concept of digital money is rooted in periods of economic stress. … “The benefits are not what was initially intended and to date are not being realized. There are serious investors, though, who are watching the space closely and are looking at which blockchain system is the most resilient because if there were to be something built on top of these systems, that’s where you’d want to put your money.”

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