Dec 17, 2019 | In the Press
Alex Tapscott at Goldman Sachs Some of the world’s largest businesses are growing more and more interested in blockchain. In particular, Facebook’s Libra announcement signalled a coming surge of enterprise interest in crypto-assets, especially among tech...
Jul 15, 2019 | In the Press
Facebook’s recent announcement that it will create its own cryptocurrency, called “Libra” has shaken not just the world of blockchain, but finance and technology giants around the world. The crypto wars have begun in earnest. On Wall Street. And...
Jul 15, 2019 | In the Press
Many large companies have taken steps to embrace blockchain, but Facebook’s plans for a cryptocurrency and digital wallet has prompted government oversight committees to call for hearings and may have banks taking another look at the distributed ledger...
Nov 7, 2018 | In the Press
In this article for the New York Times, Alex Tapscott (co-author of Blockchain Revolution and co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute), offers some fresh thinking about how new technologies could help eliminate voter suppression and strengthen participation...
Aug 9, 2018 | In the Press
Punditry runs in this family. Don Tapscott has been writing about business strategy for decades, doing everything from pontificating about Wikinomics to giving Ted Talks about the future of money. And now his son, Alex Tapscott, has joined the family business as a...
Dec 1, 2017 | In the Press
This article outlines some of the conclusions from a 2016-17 research project conducted by the Tapscott Group on behalf of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and written by Don and Alex Tapscott. The full report is available here. The first era of the...