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BYU BLOCKCHAIN SUMMIT SEEKS TO EXPLAIN BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY

“Everybody is talking about bitcoin, nobody understands it.” ELLEN DEGENERES

As comedian Ellen DeGeneres explained last week on her television show: “Everybody is talking about bitcoin, nobody understands it.”

Students, business professionals and investors tackled that question as they came together last Friday at Brigham Young University for its first-ever Blockchain Summit. The summit, organized by BYU law student Ryan Lewis, pulled in an impressive array of experts working in this very new field.

But what is blockchain, how does it relate to bitcoin and how will it affect the

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