Matt McKibbin | Source | Co-Founder at Amma Healing

According to Matt McKibbin, of the blockchain industry consultancy DecentraNet, the rhetorical positioning is just growing pains.

He told CoinDesk:

“I think the industry is still very, very young. Obviously, the lawyers still have a great amount of say in what their thing is called.”

SOURCE : http://decentralize.me/matt-speaks-at-icoforward-nyc-panel-discussing-the-state-of-the-ico-market/

This year’s conference is the sixth for d10e, it’s obvious that the focus of the event has been changing over the years.

Matt McKibbin explains:

“The event has definitely evolved over the six editions put on around the world. The first three were mainly focused on Bitcoin and its associated companies as that was most of the industry around Blockchains and decentralization. Since then, we decided to include other areas such as the sharing economy, the gig economy and disruptive culture, which we felt were having a huge impact on the world and not being given enough of the spotlight.”

“Bucharest is currently having the biggest protests in a decade because the government was decriminalizing corruption. With systems built on Blockchains, corruption is much easier to see and the information cannot be tampered with. Corrupt officials must be transparent as they cannot go back and erase.”

SOURCE : https://cointelegraph.com/news/d10e-conference-in-romania-how-blockchain-helps-fight-corruption-more

“When a monopoly exists on a certain good or service, market competition cannot work to allow the best product or service possible. The freedom to choose doesn’t exist and we are all worse off because of this. Incentive structures are built around consolidated power with zero personal risk to the creators,”

SOURCE : http://business-review.eu/news/d10-bucharest-speaker-matt-mckibbin-decentralization-is-the-future-130267