{"id":36001,"date":"2025-07-09T16:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=36001"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:16:31","slug":"think-of-crypto-as-a-transactional-tool-treat-it-like-a-speculative-investment-says-blockchain-expert-jack-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=36001","title":{"rendered":"Think Of Crypto As A Transactional Tool – Treat It Like A Speculative Investment, Says Blockchain Expert Jack Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jack Shaw, a world-renowned technology futurist and one of the \u201cTop 25 Speakers in the World\u201d as ranked by the National Speakers Association, has spent over three decades advising Fortune 500 companies on disruptive innovation.<\/p>\n

A pioneer in blockchain thought leadership, Shaw has led strategic initiatives at the intersection of emerging tech, AI, and financial transformation long before digital assets became mainstream.<\/p>\n

In this exclusive interview with The Champions Speakers Agency, Shaw offers a clear-eyed view of how cryptocurrencies are redefining the global financial landscape\u2014accelerating cross-border transactions, reducing costs, and challenging legacy systems.<\/p>\n

But with innovation outpacing regulation, Shaw warns that new safeguards are urgently needed to protect consumers and ensure fair, secure adoption.<\/p>\n

Q: As cryptocurrencies gain traction across global markets, how are they redefining traditional finance\u2014and what safeguards are still missing?<\/h3>\n

Jack Shaw<\/strong>: \u201cThe notion that we might be able to have a valid currency that could be exchanged digitally has been around for at least 35 years. People have been trying to work on how to do this.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as the internet began to emerge and people began to recognise that there was commercial potential, people were saying, \u201cWell, wouldn\u2019t it be great if there was some way we could make a payment over the internet that didn\u2019t require us to go through a third-party provider?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether we\u2019re talking about a bank, or a service provider like Venmo, or a credit card processing company like Mastercard or Visa or some of the other alternative processors \u2014 all of these third-party organisations add cost to the exchange and transfer of money in one way or another.<\/p>\n

\u201cWouldn\u2019t it be great if I could just send you money digitally, and you would somehow magically have that money, and I could send it directly to you?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem that we had prior to the incorporation of blockchain technology to leverage cryptocurrencies \u2014 the first one of which was Bitcoin \u2014 and that goes back 16 years now (the seminal paper was written at the end of October in 2008 describing how blockchain technology could enable cryptocurrency)\u2026 they named the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t actually use the phrase \u201cblockchain\u201d in the initial paper that described it, but very quickly, the technology and the way it worked was described as blockchain \u2014 and the name has stuck.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason why blockchain works \u2014 and we\u2019re not going to get into the technical details of how blockchain works because it gets into some sophisticated mathematics, and unless you have the …<\/p>\n

Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack Shaw, a world-renowned technology futurist and one of the \u201cTop 25 Speakers in the World\u201d as ranked by the National Speakers Association, has spent over three decades advising Fortune 500 companies on disruptive innovation. A pioneer in blockchain thought leadership, Shaw has led strategic initiatives at the intersection of emerging tech, AI, and financial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-36001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}