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CEO of CoinDesk on the Current State of Blockchain

Kevin Worth, CEO of the leading digital media, events and information services company for the crypt asset and blockchain technology community, visited Lehigh University to talk to Lehigh FinTech Group members on the current state of blockchain. Prior to CoinDesk, Kevin had leadership roles at Bloomberg Media, NY Times, and was the founding CEO of The Deal. Kevin graduated from Harvard Business School in 1997 and Lehigh University in 1991.  Each year, CoinDesk hosts its annual Consensus Summit, the largest blockchain technology gathering in the world. In addition, CoinDesk puts out a consensus report about the current state of blockchain which describes the progress it has made over the previous year. In that, CoinDesk's goal is to inform the masses about what blockchain really is and how it is revolutionizing everyone's lives. The report initially compares year to date returns of tradition assets vs. digital assets. While traditional assets such as global real estat