Sberbank's CTO on the dark side of blockchain

October 17th, 2016

"I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented." – R. Buckminster Fuller


The blockchain will both solve problems and create them, says Pavel Khodalev, CTO of Sberbank.

Talking to CoinDesk’s Pete Rizzo, the topics range from business applications to deep philosophy, touching on the vulnerability of online identity and how broad adoption could bring its own complications. 

Khodalev and Rizzo also discuss Sberbank’s blockchain work and plans, and the state of the sector in the context of recent Russian history. Khodalev speaks skeptically of the new culture of corporate collaboration, and hopefully of the role of the Russian government as the driver of change. (Read the full article here.)



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