Bitcoin to reach $250K (by 2022), say leaders at the 2018 Crypto Finance Conference
Bringing together founders, investors, and social impact leaders in this space, the 2018 Crypto Finance Conference (CFC) is the highly-anticipated US answer to the original Swiss conference. 180 selected guests attended, and tickets were sold out on Day One.
Brian Forde gave the call to action for more technical members in Congress. As the former Senior White House Advisor to President Obama, Forde wrote the first memo on Bitcoin in 2014. Currently, an alarmingly 4% of Congress members have a technical background. If we are truly to become a nation that is literate on topics such as cryptocurrency, this also needs to be reflected in the the lawmakers of the country. While we are seeing this phenomenon exhibit itself in top schools around the country (such as Wharton, Cornell and UC-Berkeley), where enrollments in classes on cryptocurrency and bitcoin are at record highs, it is unclear whether those students are interested in or trained to participate in national policy and governance.
