Blockchain is promising but it can’t save the world

TechRepublic’s Karen Roby discussed blockchain with Pascal Gauthier, the CEO of Ledger. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.

Pascal Gauthier: I think when we talk about blockchain , you can cover many things. If we talk about cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin white paper in 2008, we’re sort of 11 years after and I think this is still the beginning of a big revolution. Even 11 years after, protocols are still very young. Bitcoin has several contenders, and we’ve seen lately—with the Libra announcements, different stable coins, government coins—that this is just a big wave of crypto that will change...