From speakerdeck.com - September 9, 2016 4:12 AM
Presented at the Blockchain For Finance Conference, London, October 3, 2016
video: https://youtu.be/nwqdb6UEbBg

* Blockchain needs a native digital asset such as bitcoin;
* Bitcoin is digital gold and can be as relevant as physical gold for the history of money, finance, and civilization
* Bitcoin can scale
* Time-stamping and anchoring are promising applications
* Unrealistic expectations arise from distributed ledger hype: no reference implementation has emerged yet
* Instant settlement, cash on the ledger, shared data set, and improved automation are not easy to obtain
* Hardly disruptive, DLT might be evolutionary DB tech
* See F. Ametrano, “Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Distributed Ledger Technology” http://ssrn.com/abstract=2832249