Blockchain Represents the "Fourth Industrial Revolution"

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Mark Melin
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Despite recent electoral attempts to slow down globalization, in reality that trend has a powerful force behind it that is not slowing down. In part, Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology as certain developers refer to it, is illustrative of the force of globalism. As talk of regulation of the underlying technology platform fades in and out, a 51-page World Economic Forum report points not to any one authority maintaining control over a global peer to peer system, but more a global stewardship that, like the blockchain ledger itself, has distributed power centers around the globe. WEF says central banks could change…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.