Episode 71: Institutionalizing Crypto: Bakkt and the Race to Win Wall Street




Inside the ICE House show

Summary: Recorded at CoinDesk’s Consensus:Invest Conference, Bakkt’s CEO Kelly Loeffler and ICE’s Chairman & CEO Jeff Sprecher’s chat with MIT Media Lab’s Michael Casey. Bakkt plans to roll out the world’s first 1-day physically delivered Bitcoin contract in 2019, allowing institutions and consumers alike to seamlessly buy, sell, store, & spend the digital asset. While Bitcoin’s value may rise and fall, the profound appeal of crypto is not so much as an investment to buy & hold, but rather a currency t