Speaking Of Crypto

Hilary Carter is Research Director + Project Leader at the Blockchain Research Institute —  a multimillion-dollar research hub founded by Don and Alex Tapscott who co-wrote the incredibly informative book — Blockchain Revolution. Funded by partners like Microsoft, IBM, SalesForce and PepsiCo, the BRI is working on over 70 blockchain research projects, gathering interviews, videos, infographics and documentation. The big goal is to help to explore and to demonstrate how transformative blockchain technology really is, in order to get businesses to buy in and take steps to implement the technology. And really, the research is for everybody, because it goes into the public domain, so that it’s a resource for anyone looking to use blockchain tech. Hilary says she’s inspired by the blockchain tech. She believes that its higher purpose is to help empower individuals and streamline otherwise bureaucratic systems and we go into some of the examples of how blockchain can do that. She also talks about women in the block