This paper sets out to identify the opportunities presented by the technology, the challenges present today and potential solutions to those concerns.
Yet the report often invokes the possible advantages of transacting in digital currencies like bitcoin. Joe Colangelo, executive director for Consumers’ Research, writes in the preface to the report:
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At the core of bitcoin is the ability to send money faster around the globe, improve property rights, and enable people who have never met to fully trust one another
Colangelo goes on to write that the paper aims educate those unfamiliar with the technology and inform members of the bitcoin community of potential hurdles that may impede their ability to effect change.
Overall, the report is pitched as a vehicle for grasping the technology in what could be a key year for bitcoin and the blockchain.
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