If you’re watching FinTech disruption and how it’s impacting financial services, you’ve already been drawn into many conversations about the blockchain.  But your enthusiasm most likely dissipates when the term bitcoin invariably comes up. The much-hyped digital currency has experienced growing pains since its value spiked in 2013 and was later linked in the public’s mind with such unsavory players as Silk Road, the online black market selling illegal drugs , and Mt. Gox, the once-dominant bitcoin exchange that vanished under suspicious circumstances.

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