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What Every Investor Needs to Know About Blockchain
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What Every Investor Needs to Know About Blockchain

Tawfik Hammoud, Jonathan Croog, Prabhpal Grewal and James Plumb
Boston Consulting Group, 2019
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Blockchain is the next revolutionary technology, potentially transforming the economic landscape with a disruptive force rivaling the power of the internet. Boston Consulting Group professionals Tawfik Hammoud, Jonathan Croog, Prabhpal Grewal and James Plumb assess the ramifications of blockchain with a focus on the technology’s value proposition for public and private sector organizations, as well as on the obstacles to its deployment. Executives and investors will uncover a reservoir of important knowledge in this astute report.

Summary

In the 1990s, savvy investors grasped that the Internet offered the potential for enormous change. But stakeholders faced challenges in determining how to make a profit, assess competing architectures and identify winners and losers. Investors today are grappling with the same questions regarding the revolutionary technology of blockchain. The distributed ledger innovation holds the potential to shape the economic landscape in powerful ways. However, investing and deploying capital into platforms, applications, companies and service offerings present&#...

About the Authors

Tawfik Hammoud, Jonathan Croog, Prabhpal Grewal and James Plumb are Boston Consulting Group professionals.

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