An AMA on the Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: With IBM Blockchain’s Jesse Lund

October 22, 2018
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AMA with Jesse Lund

On Monday, October 22, 2018, from 6:00 to 7:00 EST, we’re hosting a special livestream crypto conversation with George Tung from the CryptosRUs YouTube channel and Jesse Lund from IBM Blockchain. George and Jesse will be answering questions from the r/CryptoCurrency subreddit. Jesse will be live from Sibos, one of the world’s premiere financial services events, in Sydney, Australia. The discussion will be about this year’s theme, “Enabling the digital economy.”

Post your questions for Jesse here on r/CryptoCurrency.

Keep in touch with Jesse Lund: https://twitter.com/jesselund

What Jesse has been working on: https://ibm.co/2OY9E7T

Learn more about IBM Blockchain: https://twitter.com/IBMBlockchain

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