As blockchain interest outstrips bitcoin, are financial services jumping on the latest flavor of the month?
“Oh shit, I need some blockchain. Where do I get some blockchain?”
These were the words of famed venture capitalist Fred Wilson who questioned financial services’ recent interest in all things blockchain. Speaking with Nathaniel Popper of The New York Times at the CB Insights Future of Fintech Conference, Wilson chided corporations for ignorantly wanting a piece of blockchain because it had become fashionable to do so.
Is financial services’ interest in blockchain really intensifying, and if yes, where? The quickest way to see this is to track media chatter or what we call the Media Attention Path (MAP). Using CB Insights Trends, we see the the MAP of bitcoin has notably declined while blockchain interest has been increasing.
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