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title: "Watch: Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Future of Financial Transactions"
description: itBit CEO Chad Cascarilla recently presented on the disruptive potential of Bitcoin and blockchain technology at the CFA Institute Annual Conference.
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## Watch: Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Future of Financial Transactions

April 30, 2015 at 11:00 AM | [itBit](https://insights.paxos.com/blog/author/itbit)

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itBit CEO Chad Cascarilla recently presented on the **[disruptive potential of Bitcoin and blockchain technology](http://livestream.com/livecfa/Cascarilla)** at the CFA Institute Annual Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.

The hour-long presentation touched on a broad range of topics including:

- Bitcoin's origins and how it differs from government-issued fiat currency.
- Security, convertibility, volatility and other considerations users need to understand about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
- Ways bitcoin and the blockchain can disrupt global payment systems and traditional notions of money and value exchange.

 

 

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