I first met Erik Voorhees in Amsterdam, back in the summer of 2018, while covering a fintech conference called Money20/20. The conference was a circus. (Literally a circus, complete with trapezes artists, mimes, and a unicyclist.) The panels focused on stuff like artificial intelligence, biometrics at the cash register, and how to use big data.
But where was bitcoin? Where was blockchain? Sure, there were some panels on cryptocurrencies maybe 15 percent of the total but if we're predicting the "future of money," why didn't blockchain have a starring role?
