QN il Giorno - October 2016

Italian Postal Services Provider, high-tech challenge, cryptocurrency is tempting startups

What is the blockchain and why is it so important to the financial sector?

It is the digital infrastructure at the heart of bitcoin, the virtual currency that has been talking about itself in the world since 2009.

It is a database distributed in many parts of the world, which uses the peer-to-peer technology, anyone who wants to join can add a node.