Chris Dark, President International at C2FO, discusses how blockchain technology will disintermediate traditional banking systems in international money movement.
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“Whether it's Bitcoin or Stellar or whatever that, that, that will fundamentally change remittance around the world, and that's a half a trillion dollar industry or so. So that alone, it absolutely will solve.”
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