Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.

With private chains, you can have a completely known universe of transaction processors. That appeals to financial institutions that are wary of the bitcoin blockchain.

The blockchain is the financial challenge of our time. It is going to change the way that our financial world operates.

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.

Blockchain technology, or distributed ledger technology, is just a way of using the modern sciences of encryption to enable entities to share a common infrastructure for database retention.