Token Summit 2017 at NYU

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Token Summit 2017 is taking place in New York University and SIA's founder David Vorick is in the panel.

Yesterday he was a part of a discussion about decentralised infrastructure (Blockstack) and presented what SIA is about.
As an example he took Amazon. He pointed out that Amazon stores a large percentage of the internet's data, and that with this great power comes too much responsibility. "So we want to provide infrastructure that nobody, including ourselves, has the control over, said Vorick, "something with no failure points, where there is no place of leverage and no company, country, jurisdiction, person who can decide that they don't like you or they have ulterior motives.

Payments over the Sia network happen via smart contracts using the native Siacoin token, which has also become a speculative instrument. In December, Siacoin's market cap was about $4.5m, but it has since risen almost tenfold to about $425m.

There should be some news and articles coming from tech bloggers that could generate interest.