Ace high or busted flush? Digital Asset and the big bet on DLT
Blockchain pioneer’s bumpy journey raises questions over future of distributed ledger technology in finance
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace. These words are attributed to Abraham Lincoln, but they could easily have been spoken by an executive at a tech start-up fending off hype and hyperbole around the Latest Great Tech Discovery.
In the mid-2010s, distributed ledger technology (DLT) was just that: the toast of venture capitalists and the talk of
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