Peer-to-Peer Financial Platforms: the Death of the Middleman
Counterparty is a suite of peer-to-peer financial tools built on top of the Bitcoin protocol, which includes the world’s first decentralized digital asset exchange, derivatives and betting functionality. The founders of the Counterparty project will share their insight regarding the future of peer-to-peer financial platforms and the opportunities that Counterparty and other “2.0″ projects offer entrepreneurs to empower individuals and institutions to trade with each other trustlessly over the Internet.
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