Driving home last night I passed a sheet that was tied to a bridge with the words happy 21st Becky! Which started me thinking as I rattled along, how will blockchain have changed Becky’s life by the time she is 31?

Will she even know?

10 years seems like a lifetime when a week in a blockchain business can contain so much. I’m just going to write a few words about this week just in case when the dust settles and next week is already halfway through we will have forgotten what we achieved.

So… the week started with our COO of the Americas Martyn Brougham being able to kick off his operation in the USA in Austin, Texas. With the addition of 3 new developers and support from James Worthington, our CTO in Atlanta. Big news for our business! The lone star state, and especially Austin, with its blockchain centric community, is the perfect place for us to pitch camp.

Then straight away they are elbow deep in building Omnitude Core, our central architecture, and that is slap bang where I am trying to get my head around James’ very intelligent exposition of the radical opportunities this architecture will deliver. As CBO, it’s my job to understand, extrapolate and communicate, and believe me it stretches all of my capabilities… I start writing.

Back to the US, we finally get a seriously detailed legal opinion from the land of the free that our token is classed as a utility, to match our UK legal opinion… they can’t both be wrong eh? We have always insisted that the business is based around real world utility of blockchain, so this legal endorsement is a big thumbs up.

Jurie van Rensburg, our CFO, sits me down and explains why this is a landmark week for us, and I heft the wedge of paper in my hand, read a few words, smile and understand that Jurie gets it, every detail… I’m still struggling to read the first paragraph. Then I’m off onto the next project knowing full well I am surrounded by some very bright sparks.

Then onto partners ImageNPay, and their revolutionary payment platform. I can sit and listen to Michael Donald talk until the cows come home… all that wit and passion honed to perfection in a storyteller of note, but that’s not what I’m trying to do here. I’m trying to tell their story to our investors so I’m heads down again in presentations, biros and highlighter pens (guess I’m just an old fashioned guy).

Our Omnitude ID, the first of the many products we will be producing, is now full steam ahead and both ourselves and Swisscom, our dev partners are cracking on in Zurich. So it’s some slightly glitchy conferencing online and we are all up to date, timelines and delivery schedules ping back and forth and I’m setting up PR conversations and strategies as we go.

Then alongside Ben Bennett, our COO EMEA, it’s picking up where the last medium article I penned under the Omnitude banner has left us, and that’s having a heartening conversation about best practice and codes of conduct for blockchain businesses with Consensys. All great stuff and it puts a spring back into my step.

And the rest of the week… well that’s filled by the rest of the day job. In a small business there is really nowhere to hide, and that is what I love so much about this beautiful tech start up.

So Becky… Happy 21st! I hope I’m not too late… and as we push blockchain into the real world, I cross my fingers and hope that when you are 31 it’s in a world of distributed networks that guarantee, trust, transparency and security, where we are all in our own digital driving seat and the trust economy is flourishing.

I’m not sure you will even know it’s down to blockchain, and why should you care?

What is important is Omnitude and many other blockchain businesses are out there, burning the midnight oil and stacking up great achievements week on week to shape what the world looks like in 10 years time.