A high-level fireside panel featuring Jeff Hoffman, Jeevan Gnanam, Yuen Wong, and the Deputy Minister of Tourism of Sri Lanka, moderated by Cherrie Chan, explored how travel innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital / AI infrastructure can help Sri Lanka compete more effectively on the global stage. Held under the theme “The Sri Lanka Destination Stack –…
Bitcoin’s Seventeenth Year: Convergence of Code, Capital, and Compliance
The Bitcoin whitepaper, released on October 31st, 2008, outlined a peer-to-peer framework for transferring value without intermediaries. It was a technical proposal for achieving trust through computation rather than institutions, a design that combined cryptography, incentives, and distributed consensus to eliminate single points of failure. Seventeen years later, that framework underpins a multi-trillion-dollar market and…