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At the World Government Summit in Dubai being held Feb. 8 to 10, which wraps up today, world leaders and grey-haired bureaucrats from the United Nations, World Bank, and other agencies discussed how governments can help their countries’ people adapt to relentless social and technological change.

Sadly, few of those moguls attended Nicolas Cary’s presentation on Day 2. The 28-year-old co-founder and CEO of London-based Blockchain sees the future more clearly than most — and he believes the Internet and Bitcoin will together create a global network of trust that will transform not just the way we bank, but how we do business and how citizens interact with governments.

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This is not just a story about Bitcoin, which Cary calls “email for money.” It’s about what comes next. Blockchain is the name given to the cloud-based digital ledger that records every transaction ever made with Bitcoin. It’s open-source, all-encompassing, and, because copies are distributed instantly all over the world, incorruptible and unhackable.