It was started in the summer of 2016 when attending an MIT FinTech course. Many of my fellow students were from the banking profession and had little real exposure to Bitcoin.
Many who took the time to dig-in found it was immensely more intriguing than it has been presented in the press.
Wall Street Author and MIT professor said, it wasn't until he learned about Bitcoin that he really understood what money was. unChained podcast with Laura Shin Episode 12 Sept 20, 2016 .
Chris Skinner author of ValueWeb: How Fintech Firms are Using Bitcoin Blockchain and Mobile Technologies to Create the Internet of Value . In his book he explains how banks need to start looking for a new business model yesterday. Bitcoin is world changing, it's not just blockchain. Bitcoin deniers remind me of the large telephone companies that would tell us that voice calls will never work over the internet!
Michael Casey and Paul Vigna capture it in the title of their book The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
And my favorite speaker Andreas Antonopoulos "The Internet of Money" rings clear and true to anyone with an open mind.
Its exciting to be present in the early days of world changing technologies. The internet did not have as much of an impact on me as I had an email account years before many and was working in the world wide web when DNS was still a shared text file. Things moved slower in those days.
Brianconnelly.com is intended to be provocative challenging the status quo and prompting the reader to ask questions that lead to discovery.
