Crypto First
The main artery of Imperial College London is an ugly throwback to the 1960's, a time when concrete and dark brown bricks were all the rage and buildings were rectangles with endless rows of linear glazing. Half way down the cantilevered concrete gangway. across a short bridge is the entrance to the Data Science Institute. I was there a couple of weeks ago with my partner Tom and one of the high street banks demonstrating the visualisations created by the brilliant team of postgraduate students there. We had been there for an hour or so when the fin-tech man from the bank said "'Barclays have broken rank". It was at that moment I knew we had crested the wave that had started as a mere ripple in 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto , posted a paper on a cryptography mailing list describing how to create the first digital currency called Bitcoin . But who was Satoshi Nakamoto and what exactly is Bitcoin? Well in 2008 it was illegal to create your own mon...
