Meet the Blockchain Tourists

It's probably best to dip your toe in the water first.
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Blockchain experiments are everywhere in finance these days. Actual blockchain applications that are big enough to have any lasting impact on banking, not so much.

Those offenders who talk alot without doing anything of substance have even been given a name in crypto world. "Too many people are using [blockchain] as a buzzword and are not focused on solving a real problem," Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse wrote recently. "We like to call them Blockchain tourists!"