Greg Adamson specialises in understanding barriers to the adoption of socially beneficial technology.
We see many problems in the world that technologies could address, yet they don't. What are the barriers to socially beneficial technology?
I became interested in bitcoin in 2013, after working in the financial services industry for several years. While banks are generally pleased with the services they provide, 2.5 billion people in the world don't benefit from these services (no insurance, no credit at reasonable rates, nowhere safe to store their money). If banks can't meet those needs, then they need to let other service providers do so. Bitcoin is a financial technology that has the power to disrupt, and possibly deliver, such services. There are many, many challenges, but it is a promising start.
