Blockchain: a solution looking for a problem
Alex Lipton: while new financial technologies show considerable promise, many proposed applications are either naive or miss the mark outright
Alexander Lipton is a Connection Science Fellow at MIT and an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at NYU.
Fintech in general, and blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in particular, are currently the toast of the town. Expectations of their impact on the banking industry are nothing short of miraculous; it looks like finance is going through a ‘cold fusion' phase. Potentially, fintech
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